He sat down to watch my "feeding" but didn't seem particularly impressed, so I changed activities; I scratched my scalp noisily to make a sound familiar to gorillas, who do a great deal of scratching.

Mountain gorillas need more habitat for their population to grow "We would love to see this population grow but in order to do so, there's really going to need to be more habitat available to them ...

They do not, to my knowledge, hunt gorillas deliberately, though occasionally one does get caught in a snare trap. But the sounds of the hunt terrify the gorillas; they flee from the hunters ...

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.

The hunting, trading and consumption of gorillas – and other apes – is almost universally illegal in all Congo Basin countries. However, poaching continues unabated due to a lack of enforcement of ...

I did that for 20 years, and after that, I decided, okay, it's time to do something serious now ... Austrian Audio from the large 400-kilogram gorillas in the industry. There is a very long ...

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Scientists found an overlap of four native plant species that were consumed by gorillas and also used in traditional medicine. Researchers tested bark samples of each plant for antibacterial and ...

Self-medicating gorillas may hold clues to future drug discovery, according to scientists. Researchers in Gabon studied tropical plants eaten by wild gorillas - and used also by local human ...

However, the community wasn’t necessarily surprised that gorillas seek the same plants as they do for medicine. Two young gorillas play in Gabon. Experts say humans’ and gorillas’ shared ...

We put people in groups to reflect their ability, because everyone's different, the gorillas move around, and it’s a physically demanding trip. You get a good briefing about the do's and don'ts ...

Without visual attention, even the obvious–like a gorilla walking through a scene of people–goes undetected (Mack & Rock, 1998; Simons & Chabris, 1999). This “inattentional blindness” is a persistent, ...