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

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

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

The "GMA" co-anchor got a closer look at mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. There are only about a thousand still in ...

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

Scientists based the research on 20 years of data covering multiple groups of gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, in Rwanda.

Female mountain gorillas are showing scientists how important friendship can be in the animal world.A long-term study from ...

"I'm not going if I don't know anyone"—sound all too familiar? Well it's not just humans. Socializing in a new group can be ...

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've ...

A long-term study of mountain gorillas finds that when female gorillas move into a new group, they pick one that contains buddies they've lived with before.

Making Friends With Mountain Gorillas In remote African highlands, a daring American woman studies some of man’s closest nonhuman relatives in their age-old environment.

A mountain gorilla who once went viral for a selfie has died at 14. Ndakasi died on Sept. 26 after battling a prolonged illness and in the arms of her caretaker, according to a statement from the ...