Zoo officials are calling it "one of the most challenging periods in recent memory for our San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...

On the heels of last week’s devastating loss of a beloved polar bear and giraffe, the San Diego Zoo on Tuesday announced that ...

SAN DIEGO — Maka, a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo, died this week. He was surrounded by the ...

Maka the gorilla, cherished by staff and visitors, dies from cardiac event. San Diego Zoo community shares touching memories ...

The San Diego Zoo was hit with another tough loss Tuesday, announcing the death of a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla ...

An animal trainer at the Fort Worth Zoo recently captured their 2 ½-year-old Western Lowland gorilla, Bruno, splashing around ...

The integration is part of a broader conservation effort to support the long-term health and genetic diversity of Western ...

Primate keepers—with help from the western lowland gorilla troop—revealed that the baby gorilla born May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is female. Pictured are ...

A critically endangered Western Lowland Gorilla mother holds her baby, one of two babies born at the zoo in Jan. and Feb. this year, at London Zoo in London, Monday, March 25, 2024.

Trudy was the oldest living western lowland gorilla in a zoo, and she was one of the last “wild caught” gorillas. At the age of 63, she has died in Arkansas.

The baby, whose sex is yet to be determined, was born to Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla, the zoo said. The father is another zoo resident, Baraka, who’s 31, and the parents ...

The zoo said the process is a “natural and normal part of gorilla behaviour” and that staff will monitor the gorillas to ...