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.

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 ...

western lowland gorillas, and the white-faced saki monkey. She is a wildlife correspondent for National Geographic, where she was also part of a research expedition that discovered a new species ...