To do so, the team analyzed photographs to measure the maximum breadth of each animal’s shoulders. (See National Geographic’s beautiful photos of gorillas.) The results showed that the biggest ...

Fredrika, known to zoo staff as “Freddy,” turned 50 years old on June 5, which is 13 years past the average lifespan for a gorilla in captivity. She is a mother of 12, a grandmother, and a ...

A gorilla made famous after her selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park has died. Park officials said Ndakasi died on Sept. 26 at the age of 14 "following a prolonged illness in which ...

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female mountain gorillas, like humans and a handful of other mammals, can live long ...

Gorilla trekking tourism funds conservation and transforms local communities. Rwanda is home to one of Africa's most remarkable species: the endangered mountain gorilla. With only about 1,000 left in ...