The gorilla's older brother had a traumatic birth that required help from a team of neonatal carers, but this time the ...

With terminology like “ape”, “great ape”, “monkey”, “primate”, and “gorilla” all meaning distinctly different things, it is ...

Scientists have found that facial expressions and vocalizations are the primary way primates communicate emotion. When a ...

In the visual domain, primates use a range of facial displays and body part movements as communication signals, sometimes combined with tactile components. Gorilla chest beating and Rhesus monkeys ...

Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

Since several models for primate-watching already existed, of which Mountain Gorilla tourism in Rwanda and Uganda is the oldest and most successful, I decided to develop primate-watching and ...

Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates ...

A 47-year-old western lowland gorilla died from complications related to heart disease, Zoo Knoxville announced. Screengrab from Zoo Knoxville's Facebook post A primate family is mourning the loss ...