The zoo's dusty Congo Falls site is still under construction, but will soon be home to a troop of eight gorillas.

Habitat loss is ... obvious physical power, gorillas are generally calm and nonaggressive unless they are disturbed. In the thick forests of central and west Africa, troops find plentiful food ...

Their habitat is limited to just 300 ... But stranger things have happened. Mountain gorillas have magic. People from around the world go to Africa specifically to see the magnificent animals.

Watch a glimpse of gorilla life in African swamp » Western lowland gorillas ... See where the gorillas live » Illegal hunting and habitat loss have also threatened the Cross River gorillas ...

he shared my aim to balance research with the goal of saving the imperiled mountain gorillas that I was studying from my base camp in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, in central Africa.

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In 1856, Du Chaillu became the first non-African person to encounter a gorilla in its natural habitat when he ventured into the African wilderness, and he subsequently made it his life’s work to ...

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Travel expert Justin Chapman at Go2Africa reveals the best places to see six of the most endangered animals in Africa and ...

Beni, the baby gorilla, marks a historic milestone ... "In their native habitat over in central Africa, there are a lot of problems with deforestation, and mining for minerals that go into ...