The young gorilla first starred in "Gorillas in the Mist", a film about the famed gorilla conservationist Dian Fossey. Dian was portrayed by Sigourney Weaver in the popular hit film. Orphaned at ...

Wild great apes self-medicate with plants in the wild Watching gorillas, researchers identified four plants that work against E. coli FRIDAY, Sept. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Humans could learn a ...

While it may have soft-soaped on the more politically touchy aspects of Dian Fossey's mission to save Africa's mountain gorillas, Michael Apted's film still delivers a captivating portrait of a ...

Four plants used by wild gorillas in Gabon have antibacterial and antioxidant properties, researcher reported Wednesday in the journal PLOS One. Advertisement Wild great apes often self-medicate ...

Here the pioneering work and spirit of gorilla conservationist Dian Fossey is continued, long after her tragic murder on ... As we picked our way down the volcano past local homesteads, I remembered a ...

Self-medicating gorillas have provided valuable clues in the search for new medicines to combat drug-resistant strains of E.coli. Scientists say four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon and ...

Observational studies cannot prove that one thing causes another, only that they are linked. Animals: This is a study based on research on whole animals. Four plants eaten by gorillas, also used in ...

Finding new drugs isn’t an easy task, but new research in which wild gorillas were found to be eating the same plants used in local traditional medicine suggests the animal world may just hold ...

Scientists found an overlap of four native plant species that were consumed by gorillas and also used in traditional medicine. Researchers tested bark samples of each plant for antibacterial and ...

Nearly 180,000 gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos (more than a third of the entire great ape population in Africa) could be directly or indirectly threatened by mining now and in the near future ...