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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed the birth of a baby gorilla, the fifth and latest addition in a recent baby boom of ...

The gorilla is gargantuan. There’s a promise of raw power in its chest, supreme agility in arms that ripple with muscle, and wisdom in its dark, deep-set eyes. It looms larger than the trees, taller ...

Juba the gorilla, one of three transferred to the San Antonio Zoo. (San Antonio Zoo) SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Zoo has acquired three male gorillas to join Congo Falls, the zoo’s new two-acre ...

Congo Falls, the San Antonio Zoo’s hotly anticipated new attraction, doesn’t open to the public until this weekend, but it has been gorilla-ready for a while. That means eagle-eyed visitors checking ...

Before she was known around the world for living with mountain gorillas, Dian Fossey struggled to bring attention to their dwindling numbers. Certain that gorillas were on the verge of extinction, she ...

Pioneering primatologist Dian Fossey destroyed the myth of gorillas as savage brutes before being killed by human hands, 40 years ago this month. Dian Fossey was not the most obvious choice to lead ...

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