Nkoumou, aged 17, is transferred from Kent to Bristol Zoo Project to lead a troop of six lowland gorillas.

Gus and Bukavu will join the zoo's bachelor troop, which will help them mature and prepare to start their own families.

A guest on a gorilla trek in Uganda got pushed by a silverback gorilla. The company giving the tour said that gorillas are typically calm around humans unless they feel threatened. It is unknown how ...

A wildlife photographer experienced a heart-stopping moment when a massive silverback gorilla charged directly at her. The ...

Bakari, a 21-year-old male gorilla, has joined Animal Kingdom as the new troop leader. He arrived from the Saint Louis Zoo as ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A critically endangered silverback gorilla, once believed to be ...

Mike Tyson once engaged in a bitter rivalry with a silverback gorilla, with the legend offering a zookeeper an astonishing amount of money to let him go toe-to-toe with the powerful animal. While ...

At San Antonio Zoo, glass is doing more than enclosing space. It is shaping the way guests encounter wildlife, how animals ...

WASHINGTON — Gorillas are highly sociable animals – up to a point. A crowded mountain can make silverbacks more violent, scientists say. Mountain gorillas spend most of their time sleeping, chomping ...