Mountain gorillas might look like muscle-bound jungle kings, but they’ve got layers (and lots of them). Behind those broad ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps you, like me, may have thought until this moment that the whole thing where gorillas beat their chests was an invention of Hollywood King Kong movies. But in reality it’s actually an ...

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 ...

while mountain gorillas eat a lot of bamboo and wild celery; they inhabit ancient volcanoes and other lofty spots in East Africa, mostly in Rwanda and Uganda. The western lowland gorillas live on ...

The tangled vines hide the forest's many dangers: poachers, rebels, and herds of wild elephants. After a few hours, a path of trampled brush leads to a clearing where a group of mountain gorillas ...

gorillas with unknown disease statuses in multiple European zoos, and wild gorillas from the Central African Republic who don ...