The Tampa Bay Times reported that “giant rodents, huge boa constrictors, hundreds of iguanas and all manner of monkeys are ...

Female mountain gorillas use memory and social bonds to choose new groups, avoiding familiar males while seeking known female ...

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've lived with in the past, showing the power of long-term relationships.

A new study finds that when female mountain gorillas move to a new crowd, they look for females they’ve already met ...

With only about 1,000 left in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund and the International Gorilla Conservation ...

A study in Rwanda reveals the significance of a social connection between female mountain gorillas.

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the wild. Tourism for the ...

The four mountain gorillas were part of a group of 17 known as the Hirwa family, which had crossed into Uganda's Mgahinga National Park in August last year from Volcanoes National Park in ...

Visiting mountain gorillas is no walk in the park. It's an uphill hike for more than an hour at an altitude of 8000 feet, through that farmland that once belonged to the gorillas just to get to ...

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

Mountain gorillas are still on the endangered species list. There are other kinds of gorillas in the world, but there are only about 800 of this particular subspecies, with 480 of them living in ...

But mountain gorillas are at the very opposite end of the spectrum. This subspecies of gorilla was once reduced to a few hundred members, and even now, only about 800 are estimated to exist.