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

Yet poaching is only one of many pressures—human encroachment, land clearing, illicit collecting, tourist presence—that have brought the mountain gorilla to the edge of extinction. Digit's sad ...

Over the last two months, 1,500 hectares of prime mountain gorilla habitat have been cleared by illegal settlers in Virunga National Park, a World Heritage Site. Gland, Switzerland – Over the last two ...

These great, glorious, fur-coated apes are some of our closest relatives. Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for ...

My farewell handshake with Peanuts came after more than three years of study of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei), largest of the great apes. The animal is already classified by ...

But in reality it’s actually an established practice by male mountain gorillas. And, as this video shows, they start learning it young. In this video, a young gorilla named Kwanda is already ...