In Cameroon’s Campo Ma’an National Park, western lowland gorillas were once a rare sight. If they heard a human voice, they ...

A gorilla sits quietly while observing the world around it. Moments like these may appear simple, but they often reveal ...

Gorillas are very intelligent creatures who experience many of the same emotions that humans do. Some of these heightened ...

Scientists have discovered that gorillas really are territorial -- and their behavior is very similar to our own. Scientists have discovered that gorillas really are territorial -- and their behaviour ...

A new study reveals one of the enigmas related to the social behavior of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the heart of the African equatorial rainforest. These primates show a ...

Kiyomasa, a 13-year-old western lowland gorilla at Japan's Higashiyama Zoo, has become an internet sensation after a video showed him sitting alone in a thoughtful pose following a reported ...

[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 ...

Infant gorillas experienced significant increases in mortality with increased group density and intergroup encounter rates. Gorilla population growth over the past 50 years in the Virunga Mountains of ...

Scientists have discovered that gorillas really are territorial—and their behaviour is very similar to our own. Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the research shows for the first time that ...