Gorillas may have greater self-awareness than scientists previously thought. A new study finds that gorillas perform just as ...

Mountain gorillas have darker and thicker fur, and lowland gorillas are usually slimmer and have a greyish colour. Where do mountain gorillas and lowland gorillas live? They live in central ...

Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for decades – now there are only about 1000 of these splendid beasts in the ...

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 ...

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What would you do if you were approached by a silverback mountain gorilla? Watch the amazing footage of this close encounter.

Petula may, indeed, have been wasting breeding time in Group 4—and if I have learned anything about wild gorillas, it is that they are marvelously controlled by internal, or instinctive ...

Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for decades – now there are only about 1000 of these splendid beasts in the ...

“By participating, you’re not only keeping electronic waste out of landfills —you’re also playing a direct role in protecting endangered gorillas in the wild.” To donate, people can ...

Gorillas across zoos in the U.S. and Europe had very distinct microbiomes from those living in wild conditions in Central Africa, likely reflecting substantially different environments and diets.

I was told that this is the normal behavior of gorillas in the wild, which spend most of their time in trees. I was able to meet 17 gorillas in all. The more I observed them, the more I wanted to ...