Female mountain gorillas use memory and social bonds to choose new groups, avoiding familiar males while seeking known female ...

With only about 1,000 left in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund and the International Gorilla Conservation ...

Researchers found female gorillas avoid males they grew up with when moving and look for females they already know ...

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the wild. Tourism for the ...

Scientists based the research on 20 years of data covering multiple groups of gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, in Rwanda.

A new study finds that when female mountain gorillas move to a new crowd, they look for females they’ve already met ...

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've lived with in the past, showing the power of long-term relationships.

Robin Roberts travels to Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, where the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the ...

Female mountain gorillas are showing scientists how important friendship can be in the animal world.A long-term study from ...

"I'm not going if I don't know anyone"—sound all too familiar? Well it's not just humans. Socializing in a new group can be ...

A new study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of Turku ...

A mountain gorilla who once went viral for a selfie has died at 14. Ndakasi died on Sept. 26 after battling a prolonged illness and in the arms of her caretaker, according to a statement from the ...