Dian Fossey Essay: Courageous, Brave, And Couragey

I define courageous as fearless , bold, Brave, and heroic - someone who has set an example for the others around them. Someone that - no matter what the punishment, will stand up for him/her self and others.Someone who will do whatever they can to be who they want to be and stand up for what they believe in. Someone who I think is courageous is Dian Fossey.

Dian Fossey was born on january 16,1932 in san francisco, California. When Dian was 6 her parents divorced and her mother remarried the following year. By that time, she had lost all contact with her father and her step-father treated he with little to no respect. Dian attended a school named Lowell High School. Her stepfather had her enroll in a business course at College of Marin. However spending the summer on a ranch in Montana, she remembered the way she loved animals as a kid, and she decided to enroll in a pre-veterinary class in biology at the University of California, Davis.

Fossey’s early interest in animals and her dream of becoming a veterinarian - led her to San Jose State College. While in college, she changed her important to job-related therapy; Although - her love for animals never died out. At the same time she was becoming more and more interested in Africa. In 1963 , on a 6-week sabbatical in Africa. She ran into DR.Louis Leakey. Who said that he urgently needed some research on the great apes.Fossey agreed to undertake a long-term field study of the mountain gorillas.

For many years, Dian conducted research on her base camp from the mountains. About 10,000 feet above sea level! She struggled with her fear of heights and steep slopes, not to mention that she had to deal with poachers, witchcraft and many other things that will affect her gorilla researc...

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...e mountain gorillas even though they’re a dangerous species.It even said in an artica that i read about Fossy that when the gorilla touched her hand, it was a big deal because it was the first recorded contact between a human and mountan gorilla that did not end vilently.{“However, her tireless efforts at gorilla habituation were rewarded when an adult male gorilla, whom she had named Peanuts, touched her hand. This gesture was the first recorded instance of peaceful gorilla-to-human contact.”}She wrote a book about her studies and years later……… many others wrote books about her too, and there’s even an opera about her.She has been an inspiration to many scientist, she has also inspired many writers - whom I've mentioned earlier.Overall Dian Fossey has been a pretty courageous person. She has also added a lot about the mountain gorillas to the scientific community.