Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical ...

Audubon Zoo is preparing to welcome the birth of a Western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species, after the zoo’s ...

Many gorilla populations have declined or disappeared over the past few decades. Western lowland gorillas have been assessed ...

The birth increases the Bageni family to 59 individuals, making it the largest gorilla family currently living in the park.

The Bageni family has a pair of blue balloons outside their mailbox, after this Congolese gorilla clan welcomed twins.

Double trouble! Endangered mountain gorilla gives birth to twins. There’s been double baby joy for one of the world’s most ...

Learn how an endangered species that rarely has twins is caring for two newborns — and why the coming weeks matter most.

An endangered mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — Sept. 24 is observed as World Gorilla Day. It was launched in 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Rwanda-based gorilla study center founded by ...

A census of mountain gorillas in Central Africa's Virunga mountains has recorded an impressive 17 per cent increase in the population of this highly endangered great ape. Nairobi, Kenya - A census of ...

Park officials say the event could have lasting significance for an endangered species with limited chances of recovery.

Mafuko, the mom of the twins, was born in 2003 but her mother was shot dead and she later joined a different family, ...