Click Here to Read: Remembering Ndakasi, a beloved mountain gorilla: Nat Geo photographer Brent Stirton reflects on the life of a famous orphaned mountain gorilla Story and Photographs by Stirton as told to Douglas Main on the National Geographic Website on October 8, 2021.

Mountain Gorilla (not Ndakasie) Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.