(Read about Virunga's park warden, National Geographic Explorer Emmanuel de Merode, who is battling to save gorillas amid brutal conflict.) Ndakasi, a 10-year-old gorilla, is sedated in order to ...

Bryan Brown, along with co-star Sigourney Weaver, took everything that filmmakers could throw at them during the difficult shooting for the movie, "Gorillas in the Mist." Brown stated, "I think my ...

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...