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 ...

While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. – A critically endangered gorilla that was born at a New Orleans zoo just six days ago has died. The Audubon Zoo says its animal care staff noticed Wednesday evening that the infant ...

By Elodie Toto Isangi, Lulingu, Mapendo and Ndjingala: these are the names of four Grauer’s gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri) that conservationists reintroduced to the wild in October 2024. After ...

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

BWINDI, Uganda (AP) — News of a sick or injured mountain gorilla can worry local residents in this mountainous area that’s home to the endangered species. That’s partly because most of the gorillas ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — One of the Audubon Zoo’s critically endangered lowland gorillas is expecting a baby. According to the zoo, the pregnancy is the result of successful breeding between 18-year-old ...

An endangered mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose remarkable biodiversity has long been threatened by the region's ...

A census of mountain gorillas in Central Africa's Virunga mountains has recorded an impressive 17 per cent increase in the population of this highly endangered great ape. Nairobi, Kenya - A census of ...