If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

After a nearly decadelong hiatus, the Buffalo Zoo is set to get back in the gorilla-breeding game. In a case of success breeding too much success, the zoo had to halt the gorilla program in 2000 after ...

New research from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, just published in the journal Animal Conservation, analyses more than 50 years of demographic data to examine factors influencing variability in the ...

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 ...

When it comes to great escapes, few places can match the Los Angeles Zoo’s gorilla compound for frequency. Gorillas have stood on each others’ backs to scale exhibit walls and ripped metal doors off ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Brookfield Zoo's gorilla breeding program has a new member — a 32-year-old male silverback gorilla named JoJo. He previously lived at the Lincoln Park Zoo. He'll be used at Brookfield ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Lincoln Park Zoo officials, who had to euthanize a female gorilla because of kidney failure, hope their breeding program will produce a new baby gorilla by this time next year. The ...

(Reuters) - After shooting dead a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo to save a 3-year-old boy, zoo officials said they had collected a sample of his sperm, raising hopes among distraught fans that Harambe ...

REUTERS - After shooting dead a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo to save a 3-year-old boy, zoo officials said they had collected a sample of his sperm, raising hopes among distraught fans that Harambe ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio − Zookeepers at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio have made an exciting discovery. Sully, an eight-year old gorilla whom zookeepers thought was male, gave birth last week. The ...

CLEVELAND, May 19 (Reuters) - A gorilla known for being the patriarch of a renowned gorilla surrogacy program at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio died on Friday at an estimated age of 47, the zoo ...