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.

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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.