Harry, a western lowland silverback gorilla who had lived at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium for most of his 33 years, has died ...

In the Virunga volcanoes, where an isolated group of mountain gorillas live, the population rose from roughly 380 in 2003 to approximately 480 in 2010 - a 26 percentage increase in 7 years.

Three decades after the groundbreaking researcher was killed in Rwanda, the ape population is growing—but is under rising pressure. Fossey devoted almost 20 years to her studies before she was ...

This story appears in the April 1981 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was Digit, and he was gone. The mutilated body, head and hands hacked off for grisly trophies, lay limp in the brush ...

The Pittsburgh Zoo has announced the sudden death of a beloved gorilla. Harry the western lowland gorilla, a longtime member ...

What would you do if you were approached by a silverback mountain gorilla? Watch the amazing footage of this close encounter.

I recently had the rare opportunity to “meet” some mountain gorillas, who share 98.4% of their DNA with humans. It is estimated that there are fewer than 1,150 gorillas found in the wild today.