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 ...

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

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 ...

It’s no small task to transport 400-pound gorillas across the country. But that’s just what zookeepers did to move seven ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — The Cincinnati Zoo welcomed a new addition on Saturday with the birth of an adorable baby gorilla to mom Gladys and dad Mbeli. The birth took place at 8:23 a.m. following a night ...

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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 ...

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 ...