In mountain gorilla troops, females hold real sway, challenging bigger males and influencing the social pecking order. Whether it’s King Kong climbing the Empire State building or Donkey Kong throwing ...

Wild gorillas have become one of the planet’s most sought-after wildlife encounters, yet they’re found in surprisingly few ...

These four images capture various starkly different realities within the animal kingdom — from family and play to survival ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

Lex Duff went trekking in Uganda for a chance to meet wild mountain gorillas and found it unexpectedly peaceful.

A mountain gorilla mother sits with her infant in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park in 2020. (Gorilla Doctors) A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation ...

The number of mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park has increased despite the war being waged in and around the area, according to the first count in 16 months. Eastern DRC – The number of ...

The critically endangered mountain gorilla’s current status is to be revealed through a census to determine its population size in the Virunga Volcanoes area that straddles the borders of the ...

KINSHASA, Congo-Kinshasa — 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. “It is with ...

In September, a tourist experienced an incredible moment in the Ugandan rainforest: a young mountain gorilla, weighing around ...

A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation area. It stops at a piece of wild celery, sits down, and begins to chew. It strips the vegetable’s fibrous ...