A special miracle occurred at the Detroit Zoo in the early morning hours of Thursday: Bandia, a 26-year-old gorilla, gave birth to the very first baby gorilla in the zoo’s 96-year history.

Yet poaching is only one of many pressures—human encroachment, land clearing, illicit collecting, tourist presence—that have brought the mountain gorilla to the edge of extinction. Digit's sad ...

The bigger a male gorilla, the better he is at beating his chest to signal to friends and foe just how powerful he is, scientists have confirmed. The impressive drumming sound is, as suspected ...

Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for decades – now there are only about 1000 of these splendid beasts in the ...

The40-year-old gorilla was chosen because she has already successfully fostered an orphaned baby female gorilla named Kindi, now 8 years old. Woodland Park Zoo began training three other ...

As previously inaccessible forests are opened up by timber companies, commercial hunters gain access to areas where gorilla roam and often use logging vehicles to transport bushmeat to far away ...

When a wildlife cameraman was invited to film the gradual exposure of a gorilla family to humans, deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he got a little too close for comfort to ...

On World Gorilla Day 2024, a new report outlines how 30 years of sustained effort and partnership contributed to the recovery of the only great ape in the world not in steep decline. Since 1991, the ...