Because of this, silverbacks also pound their chests as shows of dominance, as in victory after a fight or to attract a female gorilla. Finally, casual chest pounding is done to assert themselves ...

Kimya, a female Western Lowland gorilla at Melbourne Zoo, died unexpectedly on Saturday morning. She was 20, rendering her relatively young, with gorilla species generally living to around 35 year ...

Staff at a major Australian zoo are mourning the loss of a gorilla, while vets launch an investigation into her sudden and unexpected death. The 20-year-old female Western Lowland gorilla named ...

Because a full-grown gorilla can’t live in a person’s house, Snowflake began spending all his time in his zoo enclosure. There, he was the father to 21 children with three different female ...

SYDNEY, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Vets at the Melbourne Zoo have commenced an investigation into the sudden death of a 20-year-old female gorilla. The zoo said in a statement that Kimya, a western ...

When the young female Tuck and her mother, Effie, moved toward us, Bonne Année slowly left John's arms and climbed down to join her kind. "The baby wants to be a gorilla," I murmured in relief.

male gorilla named Harambe grabbed the child and ... Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter There were two female gorillas in the enclosure when the boy fell in. Both were successfully ...