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 ...

(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 ...

money for pictures that would appear in Nat Geo, and a contract to write a layman-level book based on her experiences with the gorillas. She quickly learned to track gorillas from Sanweke ...

Gorillas in the Lope National Park, Gabon (Kathryn Jeffery) This marked the first known instance of a wild animal tending to its injuries with medicine, but scientists suspect this behaviour could ...

In a dense Republic of Congo rainforest, scientists have mapped a network of strangely open clearings where wild beasts go to ...

Though measuring animal intelligence is tricky, some animals show remarkable cognitive abilities that may rival our own.

The gorilla, who was said to have an IQ of between ... documentaries and was the cover star for magazines including National Geographic. When her tailless tabby kitten All Ball escaped and was ...

One of the most fantastic experiences in Dzanga-Sangha is the possibility of any tourist to be within meters away of wild gorillas as they go through their daily lives in their natural habitat. This ...

A wedding brings out the best and worst in people. Tensions run high, as do the comedic and dramatic possibilities during a ...

National Geographic's new series "Photographer," developed by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, seeks to pivot the lens back towards these visual storytellers, shedding light on the intricacies of ...

Four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and used by local communities in traditional medicine show antibacterial and antioxidant properties, find Leresche Even Doneilly Oyaba Yinda from the ...

The Batwa were forcibly removed from Gahinga and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Parks on their creation in 1991. While gorilla populations in these areas rebounded, these hunter-gatherers ...