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

Entering the heart of Africa, where lush and misty forests echo with the gentle gasps of one of the most awe inspiring ...

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

Female gorillas choose new groups by avoiding familiar males and following old female friends, reducing inbreeding and social ...