Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Join us for World Gorilla Day as we release Dian Fossey's 1973 lecture from the Louis Leakey Memorial Symposium. Don't miss out—subscribe and turn on notifications!

Learn about Leakey Foundation-funded gorilla research and conservation here:
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Special thanks to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Dr. Kelly Stewart
gorillafund.org

Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Jo Rainie Rodgers and George Rodgers
Kay Harrigan Woods in honor of Gordon Getty
Camilla and George Smith
The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
The Joan and Arnold Travis Education Fund

The historic footage is from the 1973 Louis Leakey Memorial Symposium held by The Leakey Foundation in collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences on December 2-3, 1973.

Photo Credits:
Photos of Dian Fossey courtesy of Bob Campbell Papers, George A. Smathers Libraries, Univ. of Florida