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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The40-year-old gorilla was chosen because she has already successfully fostered an orphaned baby female gorilla named Kindi, now 8 years old. Woodland Park Zoo began training three other ...

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