NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE The end result, says Kelly, is likely to be a tremendous, irreversible loss of genetic diversity. But even if that weren’t the case, the Arctic’s wildlife would st ...

which the National Geographic Society has supported throughout, I discovered that these powerful but shy and gentle animals accepted and responded to my attentions when I acted like a gorilla.

This story appears in the October 1971 issue of National Geographic magazine ... slightly downhill from the gorilla who stared at me. We were both in a forest on Mount Visoke in Rwanda, where ...

(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 ...