Gorillas and humans alike have long sampled the rich diversity of plants that grow in the humid rainforest of Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, in the central African country of Gabon. Side by side, we ...

Wild gorillas in Gabon eat several of the same plants traditional healers in the region use, and these plants show antibacterial properties in lab dishes, scientists found. In a new study, compounds ...

In Congo's Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, gorillas are scratching at the soil as a foraging strategy to reach a species of deer truffle, not insects, as scientists long believed. There are an estimated ...

If you love to go on adventures and travel around the world, and you ever find yourself in the jungle, especially in the tropical forests of Africa, there’s a chance that you may come across a gorilla ...

With close to a million species now threatened with extinction, it's not often you hear about a conservation success story. But the mountain gorillas of the East African nation of Rwanda are just that ...

BWINDI, Uganda — Sept. 24 is observed as World Gorilla Day. It was launched in 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Rwanda-based gorilla study center founded by Dian ...

Native to Africa, where they live in tropical forests, marshes, mountains, and upland habitats, gorillas are powerful primates that are closely related to humans. Gorillas are the largest extant ...