. She had nobody in mind but was anxious to find out who set the evil traps. Without notice one night, a gentleman arrived from the National Geographic magazine to write about Fossey. The next morning, this gentleman, Bob Campbell, asked Fossey if she would be kind enough to approach the giant silver back. Fossey, feeling fairly comfortable around it now, agreed to the challenge. She approached the gorilla with no problem. When she got right beside it, she lay down and laid her hand out. Amazingly, the gorilla reached out and grabbed her hand. She looked down at the hand in amazement and verified that this particular gorillas fourth and fifth fingers were webbed together. She gave the gorilla the name Digit. Bob returned a short time later to reveal his amazing story to the world. On another routine trip, Fossey found a separate group of gorillas being attacked by a poaching tribe called the Baqua. She witnessed the death of five adult gorillas and the kidnapping of a baby. Fossey rushed to town to find the gorilla. She found the kidnapped gorilla in horrible shape and took it with her. She immediately took the gorilla down to a nearby government office where she presented the baby gorilla to a government official. The official said that he was the one that was going to sell the gorilla for money to feed the people of his community. Fossey made a deal with him that if she got the gorilla all ready and healthy to sell, then he would have to give her three men that would be anti-poacher police of the mountains. He agreed and three men were given to Fossey.Five years later Dian Fossey was still staying strong in the wilderness of the Congo. She was even given three students to evaluate her and learn from her brilliance. Although no enormous problems with poaching occurred those five years, poaching in general was far from over. The Baqua tribe wanted to take another young gorilla to sell. They scoped out Digits group...
