She escaped and created a new camp high up on a mountain in Rwanda where she continued to study gorillas.
"You studied wild gorillas?"
Around 2008, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society studied gorillas in heavily forested regions centered on the Ouesso district of the Sangha Region.
Angelique Todd left Tunbridge Wells for the central African rainforest to study western lowland gorillas.
She is best known for studying gorillas in Rwanda, Africa.
In 1978 she arrived in Rwanda with her husband, William Weber, to study gorillas at Karisoke, the research station run by Dian Fossey.
Jane Porter - A naturalist who studied gorillas.
The story is based on the life of Dian Fossey, who studied gorillas and was murdered in Africa.
They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans respectively.
We've had researchers who have always wanted to study gorillas and they come here and walk straight back out again.