L-R: Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, and Birutė Galdikas, aka the Trimates, aka Leakey’s Angels. Birutė joined the Angels after Dian, and studied orangutans in Borneo. Image via Mauekay After the ...

With the mention of primates and those who have dedicated their lives to the study of them, people often think of Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. But neither of these women can be credited with ...

Fossey was a polarizing figure, but as Jane Goodall, the chimpanzee expert, once said, “If Dian had not been there, probably there might have been no mountain gorillas in Rwanda today.” ...

In She Walks With Apes, a documentary from The Nature of Things, we explore the research of these three women — Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Canadian Biruté Galdikas — who were selected to ...