As she nurses her five-month-old baby girl, Anougue France still thinks of the gorillas she had left behind in Campo Ma’an National Park, in the South Region of Cameroon. That was 13 months ago when ...

A baby gorilla was delivered early via an emergency cesarean section at the Forth Worth Zoo last month after her mother faced "life-threatening complications," the zoo announced. The baby — named ...

Wild gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda exhibit a variety of behaviors around dead individuals, according to new research. Behaviors such as grooming, sniffing, and poking the ...

Isabukuru, a silverback mountain gorilla that lived in Rwanda until his death last year, was known for being exceptionally affectionate toward the infants in his group. “One infant, named Mushya, was ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A fight among brothers at Zoo Miami landed "Shango" the lowland gorilla nursing some wounds. "Shango," a 31-year-old male lowland gorilla was immobilized and transported to the Zoo ...

Wild male gorillas may be more successful at reproducing if they spend more time caring for their offspring—or even other gorillas' offspring. Researchers at Northwestern University, the Max Planck ...

A mountain gorilla walks in the forest of East Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes conservation area. It stops at a piece of wild celery, sits down, and begins to chew. It strips the vegetable’s fibrous ...

Because chimpanzees and gorillas are closely related, many pathogens can be transmitted between them. Ebola, for example, is a highly transmissible virus that has had a devastating impact on ape ...

Infant gorillas experienced significant increases in mortality with increased group density and intergroup encounter rates. Gorilla population growth over the past 50 years in the Virunga Mountains of ...

Three western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park have tested positive for the coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced this afternoon, making them the world’s ...

A long-term study led by primatologist Crickette Sanz at Washington University in St. Louis reveals the first evidence of lasting social relationships between chimpanzees and gorillas in the wild.