He was a cantankerous, grizzle-haired silverback, a likable tramp who showed up in the range of Group 5, a gorilla family that lived close to camp. A student helper rushed in to tell me about the ...

What would you do if you were approached by a silverback mountain gorilla? Watch the amazing footage of this close encounter.

The World Wildlife Fund films a family of western lowland gorillas in the Dzanga-Sangha reserve What Is an Aurora? (03:13) National Treasure: The Fearsome Science Behind the T. rex, the King of ...

So far, ten gorilla families have been trained. Tourists are told not to go within 7 feet of the gorillas, but the gorillas can come as close to tourists as they wish. Sometimes that means ...

The newborn gorilla is Adelina's first-born and staff say that the birth was extra special because Adelina is the first ...

Rwanda is the place to go for high level, carefully controlled excursions into Volcanoes National Park to see gorilla families in their natural habitat. A special new lodge ups the experience.

Like it or not, the survival for many gorilla families depends on responsible tourism. The economic value that tourists can generate is one of the main drivers of conservation for these remarkable ...

Here, 12 troops of gorilla families roam the forests. A small number of permits are issued each day to tourist groups wanting to view the gorillas, which is done through tour guides and licensed ...