Mountain gorillas might look like muscle-bound jungle kings, but they’ve got layers (and lots of them). Behind those broad ...

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Inspired by an ancient Rwandan practice, Kwita Izina honours each button-cute baby gorilla born in Volcanoes National Park ...

Gif: Courtesy of Brookfield Zoo Chicago Brookfield Zoo has relocated its gorillas to prepare them for their new $66 million ...

Visitors at Edinburgh Zoo can now see silverback gorillas in their natural habitat thanks to a new virtual reality experience ...

Since the discovery of the mountain gorilla subspecies in 1902, its population has endured years of war, hunting, habitat destruction, and disease—threats so severe that it was once thought the ...

The study found that the most common ways apes adapted to habitat change included foraging ... A critically endangered western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). Since great apes are ...

The gorilla seen in the above video is a silverback mountain gorilla ... but they are still under threat from climate change and loss of habitat. Jennifer Geer is a writer at A-Z Animals where her ...

Gorillas may have greater self-awareness than scientists previously thought. A new study finds that gorillas perform just as well as chimpanzees in tests that require awareness of their own bodies.

Gorillas may have greater self-awareness than scientists previously thought. A new study finds that gorillas perform just as well as chimpanzees in tests that require awareness of their own bodies. A ...

NBC’s Hallie Jackson runs through the Highs and Lows on Sunday TODAY including an alligator getting in the way of a pizza delivery in Florida, a gorilla smoking a cigarette like he’s done it ...