Study Plan - The Forty-Fourth Day

Dictation: (People in America)

    The American researcher was able to sit among the gorillas and play with them and their young. She made notes of everything she saw. She took a count, or census, of the gorilla population. She noted what the animals ate and their environment. 

    Fossey learned a lot about the gorillas. But it became diffcult for her to remain an independent observer. She believed that the animals would disappear forever unless something was done to protect them and their environment.

    Dian Fossey needed money to continue her research project. She believed that she could get more financial assistance for her work by getting an advanced degree. She left Africa in nineteen servnty and attended the University of Cambridge in England. She received a doctorate zoology a few years later.

    Fossey returned to Rwanda to find that hunters were killing some of what she called "her gorillas". The hunters earned money by selling the heads, hands and feet ot the animals. Among the gorillas killed was one called Digit.