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 ...

Some zoo workers in Cincinnati are going ape over a baby gorilla. They are wearing all-black outfits, grunting affectionately, and generally imitating mother gorillas to help the month-old baby adjust ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, as well as Rocky Vista University (U.S.), show that gorillas spend much more time in the trees than previously thought. Subscribe ...

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 ...

Wild male gorillas may be more successful at reproducing if they spend more time caring for their offspring—or even other gorillas' offspring. Researchers at Northwestern University, the Max Planck ...

Researchers have suggested that gorillas are capable of learning food cleaning behaviors without having to witness it in others first. Researchers from the University of Birmingham, University of ...

A new study reveals one of the enigmas related to the social behavior of the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the heart of the African equatorial rainforest. These primates show a ...

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 ...

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 ...