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 ...

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 ...

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

Over 50 years ago, the idea that males had universal social power over females across all mammalian species was challenged by ...

KIGALI, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda's gorilla naming ceremony, locally known as Kwita Izina, is set to take place on Sep. 5, with 40 baby gorillas to be named, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) has ...

Female mountain gorillas in Rwanda appear to use a strategy familiar to many humans when entering new social situations: they ...

"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 ...

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

Research shaped by 20 years of data shows the key traits female gorillas look for when seeking a new social group and what ...

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.