The gorilla naming ceremony, known as Kwita Izina, is set to return on September 5, after being postponed last year. The event will be held at the foothills of Volcanoes National Park in Kinigi, ...

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.

Over 50 years ago, the idea that males had universal social power over females across all mammalian species was challenged by ...

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

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

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

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

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've ...

Networks of long-distance female friends help gorillas move between groups A new study, published in Proceedings of the Royal ...

"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 ...

Animal lovers will remember The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) welcomed the first gorilla born at the zoo in almost 13 years ...

The "GMA" co-anchor got a closer look at mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. There are only about a thousand still in existence and a third live in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda.