Humans and gorillas share around 98% of their genetic makeup. So it’s not surprising they exhibit human-like behaviors, ...

Generally, great apes have a higher cognitive ability than other primates. Some, like Koko the Gorilla, have even learned human sign language and further bridged the gap between inter-order ...

Since several models for primate-watching already existed, of which Mountain Gorilla tourism in Rwanda and Uganda is the oldest and most successful, I decided to develop primate-watching and ...

The tiny primate was found in a box on a flight from ... “Of course, what we want and desire is for the baby gorilla … to continue its life in its homeland,” Fahrettin Ulu, regional director ...

Complete human, chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us a window into understanding the complex speciation process of these species' common ancestor. Analyses of these ...

ISTANBUL (WKRC) - A 5-month-old gorilla, discovered in a box on a flight, was recuperating at a zoo, officials said Sunday. The young primate, Zeytin, was under the care of Polonezkoy Zoo in ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (FORT WORTH ZOO/AMAZING ANIMALS+/TMX) - The Fort Worth Zoo is proud to announce the birth of a female gorilla successfully delivered via emergency cesarean at the Zoo on Jan.

A German zoo has confirmed that its "worst fears have become a reality" after a fire destroyed an enclosure, killing almost all its primates ... confirmed that the Gorilla Garden nearby - which ...

Though we don't look much like them, we humans have a lot in common with bonobos and the three other great apes—the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan. Compared to the lesser primates ...