which the National Geographic Society has supported throughout, I discovered that these powerful but shy and gentle animals accepted and responded to my attentions when I acted like a gorilla.

(Read about Virunga's park warden, National Geographic Explorer Emmanuel de Merode, who is battling to save gorillas amid brutal conflict.) Ndakasi, a 10-year-old gorilla, is sedated in order to ...

In addition to the gorillas, local fauna includes duikers ... Shortly thereafter the project gained, the support of the National Geographic Society which has continued to sponsor my research.

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shortly after dawn two mountain gorillas swing gracefully over the shoulder-high stone wall that borders Volcanoes ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a hand in breeding to training dogs to sniff out rare gorillas, scientists are taking extraordinary measures ...

And she did it without harming a single gorilla hair. Writer Bryan Christy is director of special investigations for National Geographic magazine and was named National Geographic Explorer of the ...

a western lowland gorilla, and a human This story appears in the February 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. “If you ask people what animal eyes are used for, they’ll say: same thing ...