Off screen, gorillas have also exhibited the capacity for complex social structures, intimate relationships, and altruism. Koko famously had social relationships with several humans and even had ...

An orphaned mountain gorilla in Africa, whose ultra-smooth selfie with a park ranger went viral, died in the arms of her caretaker and “lifelong friend,” officials announced.

An orphaned mountain gorilla who made news in 2019 after she and another gorilla photobombed a park ranger, died Sept. 26 at the age of 14 in the arms of the man who had cared for her.

The baby gorilla, begot of murdered parents, is named Ndakasi (en-DA-ka-see). Because no orphaned mountain gorilla has ever been successfully returned to the wild before, she spends her days at a ...

Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with her caretaker at Congo’s Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said.

Two gorillas at Virunga National Park in Congo have taken the Internet by storm by posing — on two feet — in a photograph with park rangers. The rangers posted a selfie on Facebook late last ...

Mathieu Shamavu, a ranger and caretaker at the Senkwekwe Center for Orphaned Mountain Gorillas, poses for a photo with female orphaned gorillas Ndakasi, left, and Ndeze, center, at the the ...

Orphaned Baby Gorilla Found in Tiny Box Now Has Room to Grow — and a Center Full of 'Parents' Bobga is learning all the things his mother would have taught him from a group of dedicated ...

A selfie taken by a ranger at a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is going viral. Ranger Mathieu Shamavu, an anti-poaching guard at Virunga National Park, snapped the image, which ...

Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with her caretaker at Congo’s Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said.