A new study done in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park has found that female mountain gorillas often choose to join groups where they know someone, especially other females they lived with in the past, ...

A new study by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the University of Turku ...

A long-term study of mountain gorillas finds that when female gorillas move into a new group, they pick one that contains buddies they've lived with before.

Over 50 years ago, the idea that males had universal social power over females across all mammalian species was challenged by ...

Researchers found female gorillas avoid males they grew up with when moving and look for females they already know ...

A new study finds that when female mountain gorillas move to a new crowd, they look for females they’ve already met ...

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've ...

Robin Roberts travels to Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, where the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the ...

Female gorillas choose new groups by avoiding familiar males and following old female friends, reducing inbreeding and social risk.

Scientists based the research on 20 years of data covering multiple groups of gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, in Rwanda.

Networks of long-distance female friends help gorillas move between groups A new study, published in Proceedings of the Royal ...

Networks of long-distance female friends help gorillas move between groups A new study, published in Proceedings of the Royal ...