Where Do Mountain Gorillas Live? As their name suggests, mountain gorillas live at high elevations deep in the forests of mountain ranges. Their range extends in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National ...

Four gorillas are back in the wild after an impressive journey. According to a news release from the conservation organization Re: Wild, a quartet of critically endangered female eastern lowland ...

Four adult female gorillas rescued from the illegal wildlife trade and rehabilitated at the GRACE sanctuary in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are pictured here on the day they were ...

Controversial conservationist Damian Aspinall wants to close all zoos, including his own, and free the animals to the wild. But is it a good idea? The rich owner of two animal parks in the U.K. is on ...

Scientists have documented what appear to be the first-ever lethal chimpanzee attacks against gorillas, according to a new study. Researchers at Osnabrück University and the Max Planck Institute for ...

For the first time, biologists have documented gorillas in the wild using simple tools, such as poking a stick in a swampy pool of water to check its depth. Until now, scientists had seen gorillas use ...

Two female gorillas have been photographed using sticks as tools to get through swampy areas, the first time the apes have been seen doing so in the wild, researchers reported on Thursday. “This is a ...

On Oct. 9, 2004, a group of researchers studying gorillas in northern Congo happened upon a never-before-seen event. In a swampy forest clearing, a female gorilla yanked a roughly 3-foot-long branch ...

A recent article in Nature reports the discovery of gorillas living in the wild in Central Africa infected with an HIV-1 related virus, called SIVgor, genetically close to an HIV-1 variant called ...