How often do you hear of animal rights activists who get killed for their life’s work? Well, okay, it happens sometimes. But have you ever heard of a scientist and conservationist who uses the same brutal tactics on poachers as the poachers themselves use on the animals? Dian Fossey – the “other Jane Goodall” – was a bona fide gorilla whisperer.
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She studied them, lived with them, and fought for them. And it was the way she did it that eventually cost her her life. No, she wasn’t killed by one of the gorillas. She was found dead in her cabin in Rwanda. The weapon? A machete. The killer(s)? The poachers whom she made it her life’s mission to destroy.