By: Laura Dattaro, 01/16/2014
Dian Fossey, an American zoologist who spent nearly 20 years studying mountain gorillas in Africa, is honored in today’s Google doodle. She would have been 82. Fossey, born on Jan. 16, 1932 in San Francisco, first traveled to Africa in 1963 for a six-week sabbatical, according to The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. In 1966, she began a research program on gorillas in the Congo, but was forced to leave due to political strife. She founded a research center in Rwanda in 1967, where she remained to study and protect gorillas until 1985, when she was murdered in her cabin. The case is still open, The Guardian reports.
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