更新于：2026年3月26日 / 美国东部时间上午6:43 / CBS/法新社
在刚果民主共和国东部发生的一件罕见事件中，维龙加国家公园（以生物多样性著称但受冲突威胁）近日迎来了一对山地大猩猩双胞胎。
公园管理部门周二在一份声明中表示：”这对双胞胎被认为是一雌一雄，大约两周大，正受到野外团队的密切监测。”
公园发布的一段视频显示，这对幼崽与家人在茂密的森林中活动。公园称，这次出生是”山地大猩猩中极为罕见的事件”。
今年1月，该公园也曾报道过类似事件——巴根尼家族诞生了一对雄性双胞胎。这次新出生的双胞胎则在巴拉卡家族被观察到，标志着自今年年初以来该公园已记录到第七起大猩猩出生事件。
尽管近期有此类事件发生，但专家认为，大猩猩（尤其是濒危的山地大猩猩物种）的双胞胎出生仍然极为罕见。
“大猩猩双胞胎的诞生是一件特殊的事情，因为它们非常罕见，”珍·古道尔大猩猩基金（Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund）首席执行官兼首席科学官塔拉·斯托因斯基（Tara Stoinski）告诉法新社。
“根据我们近60年的山地大猩猩数据库…我们知道双胞胎出生在不到1%的 births中。”
斯托因斯基解释道，大猩猩双胞胎的存活面临挑战，”因为母亲不仅要携带两个幼崽，这在最初几周尤其会增加行走难度…而且还必须分泌更多乳汁，这在能量上非常耗费。”
维龙加国家公园是非洲最古老的自然保护区，于1925年成立，并被列入联合国教科文组织世界遗产名录。
但近年来，刚果民主共和国东部地区冲突加剧，由卢旺达支持的M23武装组织已占领大片领土，对该保护区构成威胁。
维龙加的森林还被认为是与”伊斯兰国”圣战组织结盟的ADF民兵武装的藏身之处。
根据公园管理部门的数据，全球山地大猩猩种群数量估计为1063只野生个体，2021年维龙加记录到约350只大猩猩。
该公园称，2025年维龙加共登记了8起山地大猩猩出生事件。
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Mountain gorilla twins born in national park for 2nd time this year: “Exceptionally rare event”
Updated on: March 26, 2026 / 6:43 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
In a rare occurrence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, twin mountain gorillas were recently born in the Virunga National Park, renowned for its biodiversity but threatened by conflict.
“The twins, believed to be a female and a male, are approximately two weeks old and are being closely monitored by field teams,” the park authorities said Tuesday in a statement.
A video posted by the park showed the young twins with their family in a dense forest. The park called the births an “exceptionally rare event among mountain gorillas.”
A similar event was reported in January in the park with the birth of male twins in the Bageni family. The new twins were observed in the Baraka family and marked the seventh gorilla birth recorded in the park since the start of the year.
Despite the recent events, twin births among gorillas, and particularly the threatened mountain gorilla species, are considered highly unusual by experts.
“The arrival of twins among gorillas is a special occasion given their rarity,” Tara Stoinski, CEO and chief scientific officer of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, told AFP.
“From our nearly 60-year mountain gorilla database… we know that they occur in less than one percent of births.”
The survival of gorilla twins poses a challenge because “not only must the mother carry two infants, which makes walking more difficult particularly in the first few weeks… they must produce more milk, which is energetically very expensive,” Stoinski explained.
Virunga National Park is the oldest nature reserve in Africa, inaugurated in 1925, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
But intensified conflict in the eastern DRC, where the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has seized swathes of territory in recent years, poses threats to the site.
Virunga’s forests are also believed to have been used as a hideout by fighters from the ADF militia, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State jihadist group.
Globally, the mountain gorilla population is estimated at 1,063 living in the wild, with some 350 gorillas recorded in Virunga in 2021, according to park authorities.
Eight mountain gorilla births were registered in Virunga in 2025, according to the park.
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