A baby gorilla born at the Cincinnati Zoo on Sept. 20 has finally been given a name — Mboka Jo. The moniker 'means ...
Many mountain gorillas keep living - vigorous and socially engaged - for a decade or more beyond the years of reproduction.
Unusual for animals from a biological point of view, female mountain gorillas often live many years after last giving birth - just like people.This may be to care for their young, according to ...
In the video captured by eyewitness Emily Holguin on Saturday, Oct. 11, onlookers gasped when they realized what the ...
New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Turku reveals that female ...
One of the oldest male gorillas who was living at a U.S. zoo has died at the age of 52. The gorilla named Winston lived roughly 20 years beyond his life expectancy at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in ...
The future typically isn’t bright for motherless young animals. Research has found that juvenile chimpanzees and killer whales who lose their mothers, even after being weaned, often die or struggle to ...
WASHINGTON -- Decades of conservation efforts have stabilized the population of endangered mountain gorillas in eastern Africa. But the number of Grauer's gorillas -- a less furry, lower ...