It is a 100-square-mile region in the southern part of the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park where habituated gorillas and chimpanzees now live. (“Habituated” means the animals become comfortable ...

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 ...

Gorillas Live in Tribes and Have 'All-male Bachelor Groups,' Scientists Discover. Published Jul 09, 2019 at 7:00 PM EDT. By . Kashmira Gander is Deputy Science Editor at Newsweek.

The gorillas live in families, each headed by an adult male called a "silverback" because of its distinctive coloring. Over the years, they've been gradually introduced to people, ...

Instead of disappearing, the number of mountain gorillas -- a subspecies of eastern gorillas -- has risen from 680 a decade ago to just over 1,000 today. Felipe Dana / AP ...

WASHINGTON — Gorillas are highly sociable animals – up to a point. A crowded mountain can make silverbacks more violent, scientists say. Mountain gorillas spend most of their time sleeping ...

Gorillas often form lifelong bonds with each other, and also cooperate with other social groups to which they do not belong, according to recent findings published this week in the journal ...

Alarmed by rising rates of poaching and deforestation in central Africa, famed American primatologist Dian Fossey, once predicted mountain gorillas could go extinct by 2000. Instead, a concerted ...