<Tr> <Th> Influences </Th> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Jane Goodall </Li> <Li> Louis Leakey </Li> <Li> George Schaller </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Jane Goodall </Li> <Li> Louis Leakey </Li> <Li> George Schaller </Li> </Ul> <P> Dian Fossey (/ daɪˈæn ˈfɒsi /; January 16, 1932--c . December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups over a period of 18 years . She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by anthropologist Louis Leakey . Her 1983 book, Gorillas in the Mist, combines her scientific study of the gorillas at Karisoke Research Center with her own personal story . It was adapted into a 1988 film of the same name . Fossey was brutally murdered in her cabin at a remote camp in Rwanda in December 1985 . </P> <P> Called one of the foremost primatologists in the world, Fossey, along with Jane Goodall and Birutė Galdikas, were the so - called Trimates, a group of three prominent researchers on primates (Fossey on gorillas; Goodall on common chimpanzees; and Galdikas on orangutans) sent by Leakey to study great apes in their natural environments . </P>

Who was the woman who worked with gorillas