That's why actor Andy Serkis turned to Zoo Atlanta's Tara Stoinski to learn the ways of real gorillas in Rwanda. Although Kong is a computer-generated creature on the big screen, Serkis acted as Kong ...

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 ...

Infant gorillas experienced significant increases in mortality with increased group density and intergroup encounter rates. Gorilla population growth over the past 50 years in the Virunga Mountains of ...

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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 ...

1. Introduction and methods -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- The country -- Taxonomy -- History of the discovery and study of the mountain gorilla -- Procedure and methods -- 2. Distribution and ...

SAN DIEGO, Oct 14: A 10-year-old western lowland gorilla named Denny broke one layer of protective glass in its enclosure at the San Diego Zoo on Saturday, zoo officials confirmed. The incident took ...

Nothing prepares you for the moment you come face to face with a mountain gorilla in the wild. Deep in the misty forests of ...

[This post was co-authored with Stacy Rosenbaum of the University of Chicago and a longer version can be found here.] The forests of Virunga National Park have been the subject of continuous intense ...

A western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo damaged a tempered glass window pane in its enclosure on Saturday, shattering one of three layers of the panel, a zoo spokesperson said. A video shared ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The San Francisco Zoo & Gardens is set to receive another gorilla months after the sudden passing of beloved silverback Oscar Jonesy, officials said Thursday. The 27-year-old ...

The mountain gorilla silverbacks even ‘parent’ other males’ infants, and their collective protective abilities mean that infants in groups with more than one male are less likely to die of infanticide ...