THE recent terrifying incident at the Cincinnati Zoo, United States, where a 17-year-old gorilla was killed to spare the life of a four-year-old boy who had crawled through a barrier and fell into ...

Mayombe was released into the wild from a French zoo in Saint-Aignan A baby gorilla born in West Africa is thought to be the first offspring of parents born in captivity and then released into the ...

These great, glorious, fur-coated apes are some of our closest relatives. Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for ...

at a gorilla orphanage at Virunga - Africa's oldest national park - in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mr Bauma rescued Ndakasi as a two-month-old in 2007 after poachers killed her parents.

Kambera, a western lowland gorilla at Zoo Atlanta, delivered the 26th gorilla born at the zoo on Nov. 13.The infant, a female ...