As she nurses her five-month-old baby girl, Anougue France still thinks of the gorillas she had left behind in Campo Ma’an National Park, in the South Region of Cameroon. That was 13 months ago when ...

Isabukuru, a silverback mountain gorilla that lived in Rwanda until his death last year, was known for being exceptionally affectionate toward the infants in his group. “One infant, named Mushya, was ...

Wild gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda exhibit a variety of behaviors around dead individuals, according to new research. Behaviors such as grooming, sniffing, and poking the ...

Drawn from more than 20 years of observations at Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo, researchers documented lasting social ties between individual chimpanzees and gorillas that ...

A baby gorilla was delivered early via an emergency cesarean section at the Forth Worth Zoo last month after her mother faced "life-threatening complications," the zoo announced. The baby — named ...

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 ...

Wild male gorillas may be more successful at reproducing if they spend more time caring for their offspring—or even other gorillas' offspring. Researchers at Northwestern University, the Max Planck ...

One of the last two mountain gorillas named and studied by Dian Fossey has disappeared and is presumed dead. His name was Cantsbee, and Monday would have been his 38th birthday. Scientists don't ...

It can't be—but it is. Three months after he disappeared without a trace, Cantsbee the mountain gorilla has returned. No gorilla of Cantsbee’s stature has ever been observed leaving his family group ...

After fifteen months rangers have been allowed to return to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A deal was worked out between insurgents and the government to allow ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A fight among brothers at Zoo Miami landed "Shango" the lowland gorilla nursing some wounds. "Shango," a 31-year-old male lowland gorilla was immobilized and transported to the Zoo ...