Zoologist on Dian Fossey
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“It's probably true that Dian chose wrongly when she decided to take the law into her own hands, to try to fight the poachers by herself. And yet she felt this way was the only way to try to put right the terrible wrongs that she saw being done. But who are we to blame her? I don't know how I would react if there were poachers threatening the chimps at Gombe.”
“I warned her. Everybody who was fond of her did. But she didn't want to listen to things like that. She was a law unto herself.”