Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female ...

Unusual for animals from a biological point of view, female mountain gorillas often live many years after last giving birth - just like people.This may be to care for their young, according to ...