Here's something you don't get to see every day - it's a huge silverback gorilla beating on his chest while a photographer watches, and if you ask me, the distance between them is too close for ...

The closest most people will come to see a gorilla beating its chest is while playing Mario Kart or watching King Kong movies. But the sound in real life is markedly different, as evidenced by a viral ...

Some behaviors are instinctive and others have to be learned. This is as true for people as it is for the other members of the animal kingdom. Perhaps you, like me, may have thought until this moment ...

Because chest-beat peak frequency syncs up with body size—which is itself linked to dominance and reproductive success—female gorillas have plenty of reasons to listen in on the displays, too.

From Twitter threads to TikTok challenges, a peculiar question has taken the internet by storm: "Could 100 average men beat a silverback gorilla in a fight?" What began as a hypothetical debate among ...

Chest beating by mountain gorillas - rapidly beating their chests with their hands to produce a drumming sound - may convey information about their body size and allow identification of individuals, a ...

Since King Kong first appeared on the silver screen in 1933, the fictional giant ape has exposed audiences all over the world to a very real gorilla behavior—chest-beating. But it may surprise you to ...