The Tampa Bay Times reported that “giant rodents, huge boa constrictors, hundreds of iguanas and all manner of monkeys are ...

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

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

Entering the heart of Africa, where lush and misty forests echo with the gentle gasps of one of the most awe inspiring creatures on Earth. This is not just a dream; This is the reality of gorillas ...

A new study finds that when female mountain gorillas move to a new crowd, they look for females they’ve already met ...

The relationships built up between female mountain gorillas are more important than previously understood, new research from ...

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.

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

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

Visiting mountain gorillas is no walk in the park. It's an uphill hike for more than an hour at an altitude of 8000 feet, through that farmland that once belonged to the gorillas just to get to ...

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