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A wild mountain gorilla named Mafuko has given birth to twins in Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The population of mountain gorillas is just over 1,000 worldwide, so the ...

The male twins were born on Jan. 3 in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at ...

Wild mountain gorilla Mafuko gave birth to twins in Virunga National Park on Jan. 3, the park announced on social media "Both appeared to be in healthy condition at the time of the observation," the ...

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An extraordinary event happened this past January 3 in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was there that a wild mountain gorilla recently gave birth to twins.

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.