For gorilla lovers, a visit to the San Antonio Zoo just got much more exciting. After more than a 30-year absence, gorillas ...

Gorillas have more complex social structures than previously thought, from lifetime bonds forged between distant relations, to "social tiers" with striking parallels to traditional human societies, ...

Since the late 1960s, conservationists and researchers have worked to save gorillas from extinction. A new study by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the University of California Davis demonstrates how ...

The gorillas don't always get food served to them. Berries and grapes are stashed throughout the two-acre Congo Falls habitat ...

Scientists who studied gorillas in jungle clearings say the animals have complex hierarchical societies similar to humans. We humans live in complex social structures, which are thought to have ...

One of the oldest male gorillas who was living at a U.S. zoo has died at the age of 52. The gorilla named Winston lived roughly 20 years beyond his life expectancy at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in ...

Unusual for animals from a biological point of view, female mountain gorillas often live many years after last giving birth – just like people. This may be to care for their young, according to ...

The zoo shared on social media that the baby gorilla that was born to first-time mom Gladys on September 20 will be named Mboka Jo. The name was chosen by the primate team at the zoo. Mboka means ...

The future typically isn’t bright for motherless young animals. Research has found that juvenile chimpanzees and killer whales who lose their mothers, even after being weaned, often die or struggle to ...

Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was ...

KINIGI, Rwanda — Deep in the rainforest of Volcanoes National Park, a 23-year-old female gorilla named Kurudi feeds on a stand of wild celery. She bends the green stalks and, with long careful fingers ...

Katerina Guschanski receives funding from the Swedish Research Council FORMAS, The Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, and the Carl Tryggers Foundation. A new census – carried out by the Greater ...