APES- Gorillas in the Mist -Video Discussion Questions Name: _________________________________________ Who is Dr. Leaky?

A ecologist/ conserver, thats doing a presentation about gorillas. What is Dian Fosseys job in Africa?
Census taker/ counts the population.

Dian Fossey made her first trip to Africa in 1963, where she met Dr. Louis Leakey at the famous archeological site of Olduvai Gorge. Who is her guide and what does he know how to track? Simbaga, and he doesnt know how to track. Why does Dian decide to stay in Africa?
Because she quit her job, and thats all she has.

What does she call the first group of gorillas? Group 4. How does Dian get close to the gorillas?
By acting like them.

Describe some of the actions she uses to attract the gorillas attention.
She mimicked their action.

If they want a witch, Ill give them a witch. Describe this statement of Dian Fosseys and what did she do?
She pretends to be a which to give the native a lesson, in order to scare them.

Describe the Silverbacks hands. large, dirty, hairy and black. Why are the African gorillas being trapped?
For their hands, americans use them as ashtrays.

Dian Fossey returned to Africa in December 1966, to begin a long-term study of the mountain gorillas, under the auspices of Dr. Leakey. She initially set up camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) but due to political upheaval moved to Rwanda in 1967.

What do Dian and Bob do when the gorilla charges at them?

Acted as if they T were eating. Stayed calm.

Describe how Dian and Bob move when they are around the gorillas. Submissive, and very slow. Which gorilla holds Dians hand?

The silverback. Mad, frustrated. She got angry.

How does Dian react after she rescues the baby?

Why arent the gorillas protected by the government?

Because they dont have enough money, its too expensive.

How does Dian get protection from gorilla poachers? By anti-poachers men. Why doesnt Dian want to leave with Bob Chapman to study primates in Borneo?
She wants to be with the gorillas, and keep studying them.

FIVE YEARS LATER (1977) How does Dian handle meeting the gorilla when she is with her research students? She stood on their ground. Told them not to move or run. What happened to Digit and why did it happen? He got kill by the poachers. The poachers were locals making money off of the hands, heads and feet of the gorillas. The heads were used as wall decorations and hands and feet as ashtrays.

Dian's reputation with the locals was not always very good. She often played with the notion that they thought she was a witch (because of local Black Magic beliefs) and played the role of a witch while interrogating poachers they had caught. She also was threatened to be kicked out by the government because she suspected involvement with the poachers and Rwandan government. She continuously had to legalize her paper and work permits to further her work. Explain Dians behavior after she found Digits body. She went crazy, and a bit sadistic. She didnt know what to do, but want to kill the poachers. Who are the first gorillas she visits upon her return? Group 4. Who is Simba? Digit is Simbas father. How do we know? is simbas son, we know because we saw it. She explained that his parnert was pregnant. How does Dian defend her mountain?
By protecting her gorillas, and saving them.

Dian Fossey was murdered by an unknown attacker in her cabin at the Karisoke Research Center in the Virunga Mountains in 1985. The attacker hacked her to death by what investigators believe to be a machete. They entered through a hole in the wall prior to the attack. No arrests have ever been made, but local authorities believe it to be poachers who were at odds with Dian and her anti-poaching brigade of but a few soldiers. Photo of Dian Fossey's grave at the Karisoke Research Station; she is interred beside the graves of her gorilla friends For more information: http://www.savethechimps.org/ http://gorillafund.org/ http://www.koko.org/index.php

Final Question: Some people might argue that helping the people of the region is more important than helping the gorillas. Agree or disagree (persuasive essay) with this point of view using evidence from the film to support your answer.
I agree, because they are the ones that live there. They are the ones that know the struggle and how hard it is so live there. And people there are dying.