Gorillas continue to be at high risk of extinction in the wild in Africa due to threats that include poachers.

Gladys, the Cincinnati Zoo's 12-year-old western lowland gorilla, is pregnant, the zoo announced Wednesday. The baby is expected to be here in September or October. It will be the zoo's 51st gorilla ...

Nyati was euthanized on Tuesday following what zoo officials say was “a significant decline in her quality of life due to ...

Meet the zookeeper who was a surrogate parent to baby gorillas in a UK first – and even had them stay in his home. Alan Toyne ...

Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West Berlin in 1959. Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her 68th birthday in style.

The new baby gorilla at the Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas, now has a name thanks to TODAY viewers. Beni's name, which was revealed April 8 on the show, comes from the name of territory in ...

Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity, died at the Columbus Zoo in 2017 at age 61. At the time of her death, she was the oldest-known gorilla in the world. In the early hours of Jan. 17 ...

Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo ... She lives in her own enclosure, apart from the zoo's more boisterous other five gorillas, who range in age from 4 to 39. Schüle said that “she ...

A 22-year-old giraffe named Mahali and the oldest resident at the zoo, Roxie, a 48-year-old lowland gorilla were "humanely euthanized," as the statements said. Mahali was the first calf born in ...