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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zoo Atlanta revealed their western lowland gorillas displayed symptoms of “coughing, nasal discharge, and minor changes in appetite” Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Gorillas at Zoo Atlanta have been ...

Gaston Abea remembers his grandfather telling him that the gorillas living near their village in the northern Republic of the Congo were digging at the soil in search of tasty ants. Abea believed this ...

The Detroit Zoo announced Monday morning that the baby gorilla born on Aug. 8 — the first in the zoo’s 96-year history — is female and continuing to thrive under the care of her mother, 26-year-old ...