Chemical signatures in a gorilla’s feces reveal a lot about short-term changes in its diet, a new study finds. What an animal eats tells scientists how it survives in its habitat and adapts to ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Gorilla gorilla gorilla. The scientific name of the endangered western lowland gorilla echoes like a cry for help. Adult western lowland gorillas in captivity are dying of an ...

Jameela was about 11 weeks old when she arrived in Cleveland. Freddy’s quick acceptance of the baby provided sighs of relief. Remarkably, Freddy, despite her older age, took to nursing Jameela. Her ...

A census of one of the two populations of mountain gorillas living in eastern Africa revealed an increase from 400 to at least 459 individuals, bringing the total count for the subspecies to 1,069 ...

Scientists have observed a population of western lowland gorillas in Loango National Park, Gabon using their teeth to crack open the woody shells of Coula edulis nuts. The researchers combined direct ...

Royal Oak — All is quiet inside the Detroit Zoo's Great Apes of Harambee habitat on a recent weekday morning with animals still in their overnight enclosures as keepers trim the grass and decorate ...

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SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Zoo is bringing back gorillas for the first time in 30 years and the zoo is offering a first look at the new habitat where they will live. Congo Falls is the name of the new ...