Addo’s birth is “an important step in the conservation of western lowland gorillas,” the zoo said. Julia Daye is a national real-time reporter for McClatchy covering health, science and culture.

The staff at the Little Rock Zoo is going bananas over the birth of a new little one! On Friday, staff with the zoo announced that a 12-year-old gorilla named Adelina had given birth to a brand ...

Transfers between groups, births and deaths ... new blood—which brings me to New Year's Day 1980, when a live but weak young gorilla, confiscated from poachers, was delivered to me in a potato ...

The pair became parents after the birth of daughter Kanzi in 2015 ... She will be fondly remembered by all who knew her.' Gorillas tend to live between 35 to 40 years but can live as long ...

With the birth of her new infant, Adelina has become the first gorilla born at the Little Rock Zoo to later give birth there. Adelina and her mate Kivu (33) were recommended for breeding by the ...

Two years after the birth of a baby gorilla went horribly wrong at a NSW ... Mr Staples said the baby would live on its mum's hip for the first six months, and that zookeepers would take time ...

Meisie, born on May 7, 2010, to mother Miliki and father Bukavu, made history as the zoo’s first-ever baby gorilla. Her ...

Because a full-grown gorilla can’t live in a person’s house ... In 1999, Snowflake became a grandfather with the birth of his two granddaughters, Nimba and Batanga. Out of all of his offspring ...