Originally published in the April 1981 issue of National Geographic. Dian Fossey reports from the field on the death of Digit ...

CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the killing of a gorilla after a child fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo (all times local): 2:35 p.m. The director of the Cincinnati Zoo says staffers are ...

A 23-year-old gorilla at the Dallas Zoo in Texas died Nov. 5, according to a statement from the zoo The western lowland gorilla named Zola amassed 3.1 million views on a 2021 TikTok of him ...

The San Antonio Zoo says the death of one of its tenants, a "critically endangered" 23-year-old male Western Lowland gorilla named Zola, won't delay the opening of its incoming Congo Falls habitat.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A gorilla died at the Memphis Zoo earlier this month, the zoo announced in a social media post on Monday. The post says 37-year-old Kwizera was found unresponsive during a routine ...

BRONX, New York (WABC) -- The Bronx Zoo announced on Tuesday that Ntondo, a male western lowland gorilla, died over the weekend at the age of 32. A preliminary necropsy indicates that he died of an ...

On the heels of last week’s devastating loss of a beloved polar bear and giraffe, the San Diego Zoo on Tuesday announced that Maka, a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla they called “the heart of our ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Zoo ...

Gino had been living at the Orlando, Fla. theme park since its opening day back in 1998 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work ...

A Whitney Houston-loving gorilla, famous for his breakdancing on social media, has died at 23. Dallas Zoo published a statement announcing the death of their beloved ape, Zola, on Nov. 5, writing that ...