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

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

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 ...

The San Antonio Zoo welcomed tens of thousands of visitors during the opening weekend of the new Congo Falls exhibit from ...

Just days after the San Antonio Zoo celebrated the grand opening of its new Congo Falls habitat, visitors have posted ...

In the Virunga mountains between Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, the mountain gorilla population has grown from 242 individuals in 1981 to more than 1,000 in 2020. This ...

San Antonio Zoo unveils the world's tallest gorilla tower at Congo Falls, an immersive habitat offering unique gorilla interactions.

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, 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 ...

Four gorillas are back in the wild after an impressive journey. According to a news release from the conservation organization Re: Wild, a quartet of critically endangered female eastern lowland ...

When Dian Fossey started her work in September 1967, the mountain gorilla population was hurtling towards extinction. She was one of the Trimates, a trio of female primatologists that included Jane ...