In what must have been an equally terrifying and thrilling encounter, tourists in Rwanda get up close and personal with a massive silverback mountain gorilla. The tourists manage to keep their cool, ...

Zac Mills is a wildlife photographer and conservationist who works with bears, big cats, and great apes. He founded The Wildlife Collective, where he shares his experiences with these animals along ...

Conservationists put themselves at risk to habituate a notoriously protective 500-pound silverback. Filmmaker Vianet Djenguet documents the dangerous but vital process of habituating a notoriously ...

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, chomping ...

BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas ...

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo made an “extra special” Mother’s Day announcement this year. Asha, the zoo’s 32-year-old critically endangered Western lowland gorilla, is pregnant, the zoo said in a news ...

BWINDI, Uganda — News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas have ...