Mountain gorillas generally live in groups of several females with their young and usually one dominant adult male – known as a ‘silverback’ because of the patch of silver hair on his back and hips.

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 ...

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 ...

They predominantly live in two countries in Africa – 603 ... Dian Fossey started living in Rwanda – home of the mountain gorillas – to closely study the animals. Fossey not only tracked ...

A mountain gorilla in the Volcano National ... "The massive size of a male gorilla is actually why he has such a small penis.

They live in family groups ... Tell us what a typical trip to see the mountain gorillas entails. CJ: You buy a permit to spend one hour with the gorillas. It's not cheap: It starts at about ...

But he’s not one of the many tourists who pay $800 an hour to meet the charismatic mountain gorillas that live there. He’s a ...