Researchers have seen mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda and Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda are taking to drinking more water as heat waves have become more intense.

I recently learned that gorillas are actually big softies. Behind that frightening chest beating act, there’s actually a shy ...

Much of what we know about the ecology and social behavior of gorillas stems from the constant observation of the Virunga mountain gorillas. Many common primate behaviors were first discovered in this ...

That's why actor Andy Serkis turned to Zoo Atlanta's Tara Stoinski to learn the ways of real gorillas in Rwanda. Although Kong is a computer-generated creature on the big screen, Serkis acted as Kong ...

Just days after the San Antonio Zoo celebrated the grand opening of its new Congo Falls habitat, visitors have posted now-viral videos showing the gorillas "banging" at the clear walls of their ...

[This post was co-authored with Stacy Rosenbaum of the University of Chicago and a longer version can be found here.] The forests of Virunga National Park have been the subject of continuous intense ...