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It started with itchy gorillas and old scarecrows. It ended with a blueprint for saving both people and wildlife. Yves ...
We still can't believe we walked with endangered mountain gorillas!!! It truly was the most terrifying experience of our lives.. but truly magical all at the same time. We flew into Entebbe and were ...
KINSHASA, Congo — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. "It is with ...
An orphaned mountain gorilla who became an internet sensation after a selfie of her with her keeper went viral has died. Virunga National Park said Ndakasi died on the evening of September 26 ...
Titus was just 4 years old when poachers killed his father and several other close adults in his group. Despite the violence, ...
An orphaned mountain gorilla in Africa, whose ultra-smooth selfie with a park ranger went viral, died in the arms of her caretaker and “lifelong friend,” officials announced. Ndakasi passed ...
Mountain gorillas are a subspecies of eastern gorilla (Gorilla beringei). As their name hints, they live in the mountains at elevations between 8,000 and 13,000 feet. Conservation ...
Mountain gorillas might look like muscle-bound jungle kings, but they’ve got layers (and lots of them). Behind those broad shoulders and serious stares are creatures full of quirks, social ...
The Mountain Gorilla population has shown signs of a miraculous resurgence, with roughly 1,000 individuals spotted in a recent count.
One can hardly talk about mountain gorillas in Uganda without hearing Dr Gladys Kalema Zikusoka’s name at least once. At 55, ...
Science | April 2020 How Africa’s Mountain Gorillas Staged a Comeback Long victimized by poaching and deforestation, the primate species is in the midst of a surprising rebound that is sparking ...
Mountain gorillas are currently the only nonhuman great ape whose population is not declining. Thanks to successful conservation interventions, the species’ population has increased from 620 in ...