(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...