As a silverback, an adult male with white hair covering his back, Oscar was the head of the gorilla troop at the zoo and shared its preserve with three adult females, Monifa, Bawang and Kimani. He ...

What would you do if you were approached by a silverback mountain gorilla? Watch the amazing footage of this close encounter.

In this video, a young gorilla named Kwanda is already hard at work practicing his chest pounding and it’s too cute. Kwanda is about three years old and lives with his family in Volcanoes National ...

Meisie, born on May 7, 2010, to mother Miliki and father Bukavu, made history as the zoo’s first-ever baby gorilla. Her ...

Animal rights activists are reacting strongly on social media after a gorilla was killed at a Cincinnati zoo on Saturday. The 17-year-old male gorilla named Harambe was shot by a team at the zoo ...

"I think he's a lone silverback, an older one." (A male gorilla is called a silverback when, at about age 11 to 13, the hair turns gray to silver across his back.) "Nonsense!" I replied.

"Bachelor groups like Kivu's play a vital role in gorilla conservation, providing essential social environments for male gorillas while supporting sustainable breeding programmes worldwide," a ...

On Saturday, a 4-year-old boy crawled under a rail and through wires, before dropping 12 feet into into a gorilla cage at the Cincinnati zoo. Shortly after, a 17-year-old, 400 lb. male gorilla ...

He was the third-oldest male of his species living in a U.S. zoo ... The zoo didn't specify what type of medical procedure the gorilla underwetn. Oscar Jonesy was born in 1981 and had resided ...