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 ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

Robin Roberts travels to Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, where the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the ...

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

Female gorillas choose new groups by avoiding familiar males and following old female friends, reducing inbreeding and social ...

Mountain gorillas might look like muscle-bound jungle kings, but they’ve got layers (and lots of them). Behind those broad shoulders and serious stares are creatures full of quirks, social ...

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 ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo’s Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said.