While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

In the forested slopes of eastern Congo, a single birth has given conservationists a rare reason to celebrate. A wild ...

Mafuko, the mom of the twins, was born in 2003 but her mother was shot dead and she later joined a different family, according to the Virunga National Park.

The Bageni family has a pair of blue balloons outside their mailbox, after this Congolese gorilla clan welcomed twins.

The twins were born to a 22-year-old female named Mafuko, who lost her own mother to armed individuals. The extremely endangered species currently numbers at just over 1,000.

On the morning of May 11, Rachel Masika Baraka, a park ranger, was setting out on a normal day at work in Virunga National Park, the oldest, largest and most biologically diverse park in the ...

Conservationists at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced the rare birth of mountain gorilla twins, a significant event for the endangered species.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mafuko, an endangered mountain gorilla, holds the twins she gave birth to in the Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic ...

Mathieu Shamavu, a ranger and caretaker at the Senkwekwe Center for Orphaned Mountain Gorillas, poses for a photo with female orphaned gorillas Ndakasi, left, and Ndeze, center, at the the Senkwekwe ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Ndakasi, a mountain ...