If you liked this story, share it with other people. Successful conservation interventions have helped mountain gorilla populations recover from 620 in 1989 to more than 1,000 today. However, mountain ...

New research from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, just published in the journal Animal Conservation, analyses more than 50 years of demographic data to examine factors influencing variability in the ...

There are about a thousand mountain gorillas remaining on Earth, and about half live in the forests of the Virunga mountains in central Africa. Mountain gorillas are a subspecies of eastern gorilla ...

After a nearly decadelong hiatus, the Buffalo Zoo is set to get back in the gorilla-breeding game. In a case of success breeding too much success, the zoo had to halt the gorilla program in 2000 after ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Brookfield Zoo's gorilla breeding program has a new member — a 32-year-old male silverback gorilla named JoJo. He previously lived at the Lincoln Park Zoo. He'll be used at Brookfield ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Lincoln Park Zoo officials, who had to euthanize a female gorilla because of kidney failure, hope their breeding program will produce a new baby gorilla by this time next year. The ...