Audubon Zoo is preparing to welcome the birth of a Western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species, after the zoo’s ...

The twins were born to a 22-year-old female named Mafuko, who lost her own mother to armed individuals. The extremely endangered species currently numbers at just over 1,000.

Update: On September 10, the Audubon Zoo shared the devastating news that the infant gorilla had passed away. A critically endangered western lowland gorilla has given birth to her first baby at a zoo ...

A critically endangered, 18-year-old western lowland gorilla named Tumani at the Audubon Zoo is pregnant.

An infant gorilla died shortly after childbirth on Friday, the Audubon Nature Institute said. It was the second infant to die just after being born to 18-year-old Tumani, one of the Audubon Zoo's ...

The Bageni family has a pair of blue balloons outside their mailbox, after this Congolese gorilla clan welcomed twins.

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A new baby Western Lowland Gorilla was welcomed to the world at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) on Monday, July 21–the first of its kind born at the zoo in nearly 13 years. Asha ...

(WBIR-Knoxville) Until last week, it had been years since a gorilla was born in captivity in Tennessee. In fact, one had never been born at the Knoxville Zoo. Now, they've had two babies born in the ...

A baby gorilla at London Zoo has started the Halloween festivities early by tucking into a "spooky" pumpkin. Venus, who is one year and eight months old, was treated to carved pumpkins stuffed with ...

The annual naming ceremony is a Rwandan tradition. Umurimos's baby gorilla is pictured. Rwanda named 24 new baby gorillas during the 11th Annual Gorilla Naming Ceremony, Kwita Izina, at the foothills ...