Editing Dian Fossey (section)

===Research in the Congo===
[[File:Virunga Mountain Gorilla 1.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Gorilla mother with infant in [[Virunga National Park]] in the Congo]]

When Leakey made an appearance in Louisville while on a nationwide lecture tour, Fossey took the color supplements that had appeared about her African trip in ''[[The Courier-Journal]]'' to show to Leakey, who remembered her and her interest in mountain gorillas. Three years after the original safari, Leakey suggested that Fossey could undertake a long-term study of the gorillas in the same manner as [[Jane Goodall]] had with chimpanzees in Tanzania.<ref name="farley"/> Leakey lined up funding for Fossey to research mountain gorillas, and Fossey left her job to relocate to Africa.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives|year=1998|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|location=New York|pages=294–296|editor1=Kenneth T. Jackson |editor2=Karen Markoe |editor3=Arnold Markoe }}</ref>

After studying [[Swahili language|Swahili]] and auditing a class on [[primatology]] during the eight months it took to get funding and her visas, Fossey arrived in Nairobi in December 1966. With the help of Joan Root and Leakey, Fossey acquired the necessary provisions and an old canvas-topped [[Land Rover]] which she named "Lily". On the way to the Congo, Fossey visited the [[Gombe Stream National Park|Gombe Stream Research Centre]] to meet Goodall and observe her research methods with chimpanzees.<ref name=GFDFL/> Accompanied by photographer Alan Root, who helped her obtain work permits for the [[Virunga Mountains]], Fossey began her field study at Kabara, in the Congo in early 1967, in the same meadow where Schaller had made his camp seven years earlier.<ref name="Montgomery136">{{Harvnb|Montgomery|p=136}}</ref> Root taught her basic gorilla tracking, and his tracker Sanwekwe later helped in Fossey's camp. Living in tents on mainly tinned produce, once a month Fossey would hike down the mountain to "Lily" and make the two-hour drive to the village of Kikumba to restock.<ref name=GFDFL/>

Fossey identified three distinct groups in her study area, but could not get close to them. She eventually found that mimicking their actions and making grunting sounds reassured them, together with submissive behavior and eating of the local celery plant.<ref name="Montgomery136"/> She later attributed her success with habituating gorillas to her experience working as an occupational therapist with children with autism.<ref name="farley"/> Like George Schaller, Fossey relied greatly on individual "noseprints" for identification, initially via sketching and later by camera.<ref name=GFDFL/>

Fossey had arrived in the Congo in locally turbulent times. Known as the [[Belgian Congo]] until its independence in June 1960, unrest and rebellion plagued the new government until 1965, when Lieutenant General [[Joseph-Désiré Mobutu]], by then commander-in-chief of the national army, seized control of the country and declared himself president for five years during what is now called the [[Congo Crisis]]. During the political upheaval, a rebellion and battles took place in the [[Kivu]] Province. On July 9, 1967, soldiers arrived at the camp to escort Fossey and her research workers down, and she was detained at [[Rumangabo]] for two weeks. Fossey eventually escaped through bribery to Walter Baumgärtel's Travellers Rest Hotel in [[Kisoro]], where her escort was arrested by the Ugandan military.<ref name=GFDFL/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gorillafund.org/dian_fossey/ |title=About Dian Fossey – Info about the Life of Dian Fossey |publisher=Gorillafund.org |date=November 16, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612232428/http://gorillafund.org/dian_fossey/ |archive-date=June 12, 2010 }}</ref>
Advised by the Ugandan authorities not to return to Congo, after meeting Leakey in Nairobi, Fossey agreed with him against [[Us embassy|US Embassy]] advice to restart her study on the [[Rwanda]]n side of the [[Virunga Mountains|Virungas]].<ref name=GFDFL/> In Rwanda, Fossey had met local American expatriate [[Rosamond Carr]], who introduced her to [[Belgium|Belgian]] local Alyette DeMunck; DeMunck had a local's knowledge of Rwanda and offered to find Fossey a suitable site for study.<ref name=GFDFL/>