Ndakasi, the female gorilla, won hearts during her lifetime for her playful personality and gentle nature.

National Geographic Explorer Brent Stirton has photographed life inside Virunga National Park over the course of nearly two ...

Residents of Southern California are used to encountering a specific type of urban wildlife, but rarely do they get to see a massive mountain gorilla in the wild. Just 1,000 of the gorillas are left ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

Climate change is forcing mountain gorillas to drink more water as rising temperatures ...

The gorilla should have vanished. In the late 1980s, the mountain gorilla clung to survival in the misted borderlands of ...

Mountain gorillas might look like muscle-bound jungle kings, but they’ve got layers (and lots of them). Behind those broad shoulders and serious stares are creatures full of quirks, social smarts, and ...

With close to a million species now threatened with extinction, it's not often you hear about a conservation success story. But the mountain gorillas of the East African nation of Rwanda are just that ...