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...DARK ROMANCE OF DIAN FOSSEY by Harold T.P. Hayes...
...male in the field of human- fossil studies, believed that women made better primate researchers than men. His Exhibit A was Jane Goodall, whose work on chimpanzees in Tanzania has been justly celebrated. Exhibit B also achieved acclaim but, on balance, muted the generalization. In 1966 Leakey sent Dian Fossey to the Congo slope of the Virunga volcanic forest to study the habits of the mountain gorilla. Fossey convinced the eminent prehistorian of her resolve with only a few free-lance articles she had written for the Louisville Courier-Journal. Her previous job was as an occupational therapist in Kentucky...
...What Fossey had was determination and emotional hungers that drove her to extremes. She told her story in Gorillas in the Mist (1983), a bold mix of field observation, adventure and ecological tragedy. The mountain gorilla was being pushed out of its habitat by human population growth. Poachers were trapping the creatures for zoos or killing them for trophies. Gorilla heads made unusual hat racks. The hands could be used for ashtrays...
Actress Sigourney Weaver claimed a rare Oscar double nomination for best actress for Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey and best supporting actress for Working Girl...
...that catastrophes, man-made and otherwise, are pummeling Africa. But Shoumatoff's first-person reports do not simply catalog misery. Once on the scene, the author concentrates on the feel of a place and the conversation of the local residents, building the big picture through small details. He acknowledges Fossey's courage in trying to protect an endangered band of mountain gorillas; he also discovers that her love for the great apes was matched by her contempt for the Rwandan people. In the Central African Republic he encounters people who wonder why the West makes such a fuss about eating...