For gorilla lovers, a visit to the San Antonio Zoo just got much more exciting. After more than a 30-year absence, gorillas ...

For the first time in 35 years, gorillas have a home at the zoo. It's a big upgrade from the previous enclosure for the primates.

Dian Fossey was a zoologist who spent decades studying the elusive mountain gorillas of Congo and Rwanda before she was ...

A gorilla at Congo Falls, the new two-acre habitat at the San Antonio Zoo. The seven recently-arrived gorillas didn't go ...

KINSHASA, Congo-Kinshasa — Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla who famously posed for a selfie with a ranger at Congo's Virunga National Park, has died at 14 after a long illness, the park said. “It is with ...

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new product to raise its profile ...

LONDON (AP) -- A park ranger in Congo has described how he captured a selfie with two gorillas that went viral. Mathieu Shamavu, a ranger at Virunga National Park in eastern Congo, said he was ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Park rangers in eastern Congo hope to begin searching this week for dozens of mountain gorillas who have not been seen since rebels took control of an area where the critically ...

Just over a year ago, Andre Bauma and his adopted daughter Ndakasi huddled together as bombs, rockets and mortars rent the air. Bauma recalls holding Ndakasi and stroking her thick, dark hair. They ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - United Nations peacekeepers in Congo have used helicopters to airlift endangered baby gorillas to a sanctuary after they were rescued in a conflict zone where they faced being ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Decades of conservation efforts have stabilized the population of endangered mountain gorillas in eastern Africa. But the number of Grauer’s gorillas — a less furry, lower ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Rangers and 300 villagers abandoned a gorilla reserve in eastern Congo as government soldiers battled troops loyal to a renegade general in sections of the park. Sporadic clashes ...