Beautiful and rare, the gorilla is a creature known for its strength and intelligence. Observing a gorilla will surely remind you of being a human, especially since gorillas have been studied for ...

Snakes live all over the world. Some of them crush their prey to death while others use potent venom to put an end to their foes. Gorillas live in Africa, a continent that is known for its numerous ...

In Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park, the last thousand endangered mountain gorillas live in the wild. Tourism for the gorillas has helped support conservation efforts and transformed communities. Are ...

In what must have been an equally terrifying and thrilling encounter, tourists in Rwanda get up close and personal with a massive silverback mountain gorilla. The tourists manage to keep their cool, ...

These highlights from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest feature our close “cousins” A mountain gorilla seemingly enjoys a moment of solitude in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, surrounded by ...