Roxie was a beloved 48-year-old Western lowland gorilla who was a key figure in her troop and helped gorilla conservation.

A gorilla known for her tickle fights was euthanized due to age-related health decline, a Colorado zoo said. A western Iowland “gorilla icon” named Roxie who was known by Cheyenne Mountain Zoo staff ...

Roxie was an icon, according to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. She was the longest living resident and was born at the zoo in ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

renewing speculation that the mountain gorilla might not survive the rapaciousness of its primate cousin, Homo sapiens. A village on the edge of Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Conservationists ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The western lowland gorillas explored their new indoor habitat at the Brookfield Zoo Chicago. The ...

TODAY host Savannah Guthrie announced the show would be live from the Little Rock Zoo on Tuesday morning, when the zoo will reveal the newborn primate’s name on live TV.

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A heartwarming video of a man and a gorilla is taking over the internet, leaving people emotional with its pure and silent ...

On Memorial Day weekend in 2016, a four-year-old boy climbed into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, encountering Harambe, a 17-year-old, 400-pound silverback gorilla. The ensuing ...

Social media lit up with reports of a gorilla on the loose following a power outage Tuesday night in the Granby Street area, with several Facebook users claiming to have seen the large primate.

At the turn of the 20th century, British physiologists Charles Scott Sherrington and Albert Sidney Frankau Leyton started poking around in the brains of anesthetized great apes in their lab at the ...