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

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 ...

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

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.

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

"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 ...

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

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

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

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

The population of mountain gorillas has grown by 47 percent since 2007, from 720 to an estimated 1,063 gorillas in 2021. "I am proud to have called Ndakasi my friend.