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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A long-term study of mountain gorillas finds that when female gorillas move into a new group, they pick one that contains buddies they've lived with before.

Female gorillas do not change groups randomly. They avoid the males they grew up with, thus preventing inbreeding, according ...

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