While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

Learn how an endangered species that rarely has twins is caring for two newborns — and why the coming weeks matter most.

A mountain gorilla named Mafuko has given birth to twins, a "rare and remarkable event", in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mafuko, the mom of the twins, was born in 2003 but her mother was shot dead and she later joined a different family, ...

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the wild. Tourism for the gorillas has helped support conservation efforts and transformed communities. Are ...

Around half of mountain gorillas live in the Virunga Mountains, including Mafuko's family - the Bageni family. Thanks to the newborn twins, the Bageni family now has 59 members, making it the largest ...

Where Do Mountain Gorillas Live? As their name suggests, mountain gorillas live at high elevations deep in the forests of mountain ranges. Their range extends in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National ...

In what must have been an equally terrifying and thrilling encounter, tourists in Rwanda get up close and personal with a massive silverback mountain gorilla. The tourists manage to keep their cool, ...

BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas ...

WASHINGTON — There are more gorillas in the mist — a rare conservation success story, scientists say. After facing near-extinction, mountain gorillas are slowly rebounding. On Wednesday, the ...

The male twins were welcomed on Jan. 3 in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...