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April 26, 2017

Twenty-nine-year-old silverback Inshuti has had an interesting life, spending most of his adulthood as a lone silverback, though for...

June 30, 2015

June 30, 2015 A lone silverback keeps trying It seems that age isn’t discouraging solitary mountain gorilla silverback Inshuti...

September 25, 2014

September 25, 2014 Inshuti: An Unusual and Difficult Silverback Like humans, mountain gorillas are highly social creatures with intricate...

June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014 Taraja Gives Birth and Lone Silverback Giraneza is Seen Again On May 23, an infant was...

September 16, 2013

September 16, 2013 Gorilla News Roundup Infant Mountain Gorilla Caught in Snare Snares are one of the ongoing threats...

January 9, 2012

January 9, 2012 A Most Persistent Solitary Silverback The Fossey Fund’s Karisoke™ Research Center routinely monitors nine groups of...

October 7, 2010

Lone Silverback Giraneza Seen After Two Years' Absence It was with great surprise that, on Sept. 25, the field...

August 1, 2010

August 2010 Gwiza, Lone Silverback, Interacts With Shinda Group Gwiza is a 22-year-old silverback, who broke away from Shinda’s...

April 1, 2006

April 2006 April Field News In gorilla news this month, Pablo's group of mountain gorillas (one of the three...

June 1, 2005

June 2005 In Rare Event, Lone Silverback Amahoro Returns to his Natal Group The return of Amahoro, a 19-year-old...

July 1, 2004

July 2004 Gorilla Births; New Lone Silverback; Staff News Gorilla news Recent months have been busy at Karisoke. We...