"It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes."

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Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#Individuality Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Apes Quotes

“One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.”
Dian Fossey
“None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.”
Dian Fossey

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.”
Dian Fossey

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have no friends. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.”
Dian Fossey
“I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The air was suddenly rent by a high-pitched series of screams followed by the rhythmic rondo of sharp pok-pok chestbeats from a great silverbacked male obscured behind what seemed an impenetrable wall of vegetation.”
Dian Fossey

Source : Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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