They are deemed to be the largest apes on the planet ... The gorillas in the mountain gorilla region are prone to contracting scabies, TB, and other infections from human transmission since ...

My farewell handshake with Peanuts came after more than three years of study of the mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei), largest of the great apes. The animal is already classified by ...

Yet poaching is only one of many pressures—human encroachment, land clearing, illicit collecting, tourist presence—that have brought the mountain gorilla ... of these largest of the great ...

These great, glorious, fur-coated apes are some of our closest relatives. Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for ...

The first full genome sequence of the mountain gorilla, one subspecies of the eastern gorilla, suggests a that the population has been declining for 100,000 years, resulting in limited genetic ...