Research Catalog

Title

• Gorillas in the mist / Dian Fossey.

Author

Fossey, Dian.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

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Description

xviii, 326 p., [80] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Describes four gorilla families living in the rain forests of the Virunga mountains of Rwanda during a fifteen-year case study.

Subject

• Behavior, Animal
• Fossey, Dian
• Gorilla > Behavior
• Gorilla gorilla
• Mammals > Behavior

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-311) and index.

Contents

Preface -- In the mountain meadow of Carl Akeley and George Schaller -- Second beginning: Karisoke Research Centre, Rwanda -- Karisoke field impressions -- Three generations of one gorilla family: group 5 -- Wild orphans bound for captivity: Coco and Pucker -- Animal visitors to the Karisoke Research Centre -- The natural demise of two gorilla families: group 8 and 9 -- Human visitors to the Karisoke Research Centre -- Adjustment to a new silverback leader: group 4 -- Growing family stability: group 4 -- Decimation by poachers: group 4 -- Formation of a new family lends hope: Nunkie's group -- Epilogue -- Appendixes: -- A. Food vegetation types -- B. Birth frequency graph -- C. Rainfall distribution in the Virungas -- D. 1981 census findings -- E. Common gorilla vocalizations -- F. Autopsy findings -- G. Parasitology research -- Bibliography -- Index -- Maps: Habitats of the mountain gorilla ; Gorilla food vegetation zones ; Gorilla group ranges -- Family lines.

ISBN

• 0395282179 :
• 0395489288 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^82023332^

OCLC

9132014

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library