How much do you know about this critically endangered species and National Geographer Explorer Dian Fossey, the woman who dedicated her life to them? It's been more than 50 years since legendary ...

These great, glorious, fur-coated apes are some of our closest relatives. Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for ...

Habituation is a last-ditch effort to save the critically endangered Eastern lowland gorillas from extinction but it does not come without risks. - There are actually two methods of habituating ...

Bright eyes peered at me through a lattice of ferns. I occupied a branch of another tree, slightly downhill from the gorilla who stared at me. We were both in a forest on Mount Visoke in Rwanda ...

One of the most fantastic experiences in Dzanga-Sangha is the possibility of any tourist to be within meters away of wild gorillas as they go through their daily lives in their natural habitat. This ...

The hunting, trading and consumption of gorillas – and other apes – is almost universally illegal in all Congo Basin countries. However, poaching continues unabated due to a lack of enforcement of ...

BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt visits Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda, to find out what mountain gorilla conservation can tell us about protecting other species. I could tell she knew I was ...

The bigger a male gorilla, the better he is at beating his chest to signal to friends and foe just how powerful he is, scientists have confirmed. The impressive drumming sound is, as suspected ...

Rwanda will this year host a gorilla-naming ceremony for 22 baby apes. There are now 1 063 gorillas across the DRC, Uganda, and Rwanda. In 1980 that population numbered just 254. Rwanda's Kwita Izina ...

A special miracle occurred at the Detroit Zoo in the early morning hours of Thursday: Bandia, a 26-year-old gorilla, gave birth to the very first baby gorilla in the zoo’s 96-year history.

The researchers interviewed Indigenous Vungu healers and herbalists about their medical usage of local plants, then followed gorillas in the park to observe which plants the apes also consumed ...

Self-medicating gorillas have provided valuable clues in the search for new medicines to combat drug-resistant strains of ...