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.

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the wild. Tourism for the ...

Scientists based the research on 20 years of data covering multiple groups of gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, in Rwanda.

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

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

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

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 ...

A long-term study of mountain gorillas finds that when female gorillas move into a new group, they pick one that contains buddies they've lived with before.

Researchers found female gorillas avoid males they grew up with when moving and look for females they already know ...