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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In mountain gorilla troops, females hold real sway, challenging bigger males and influencing the social pecking order. Whether ...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Virunga National Park rang in the new year with the birth of twin mountain gorillas. Community trackers who keep an eye on the endangered animals’ population in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mafuko, a 22-year-old mountain gorilla, was spotted holding twins, which the park says are both male. Virunga National Park With ...

BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas ...

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female mountain gorillas, like humans and a handful of other mammals, can live long ...

A mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in war-ravaged eastern Congo, a national park said on Wednesday, in what it described as “a major event” for the endangered subspecies. The birth of the two ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The most extensive genetic analysis of mountain gorillas ever conducted has found the critically endangered apes burdened with severe inbreeding and at risk of extinction but ...

In an incredible conservation success, collaborative efforts have reversed decades of decline in mountain gorilla numbers. Yet the increase in their population is fragile. In 2018 I was fortunate ...

GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - East Congo's conflict has put more than a quarter of the world's last mountain gorillas at the mercy of armed groups who hunt and camp in their territory, park officials said ...