What would you do if you were approached by a silverback mountain gorilla? Watch the amazing footage of this close encounter.

On Memorial Day weekend in 2016, a four-year-old boy climbed into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo, encountering Harambe, a 17-year-old, 400-pound silverback gorilla. The ensuing ...

The boy, being four years old, immediately climbed into the gorilla cage, where he plummeted some 15 feet into a moat. A 17-year-old, 400-plus-pound Western lowland silverback gorilla named ...

The Fort Worth Zoo is celebrating one of its most beloved animals — who is believed to be the oldest silverback gorilla in the world! Ramses, who turned 52 on Wednesday, has seemingly stolen the ...

When he turns toward Vecellio, an ebullient woman who studies gorilla group dynamics, she snaps a picture, then zooms in on a wound on his nose. “He fought with another silverback from Titus ...

According to New York Daily News, 5-year-old Levan Merritt fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Jersey Zoo, losing consciousness during the fall. One of the zoo's silverback male gorillas ...

The first baby gorilla to be born at Blackpool Zoo has arrived in India to start a major new adventure with her half-sister.

In 2024, the DZS earned the Silverback Award for collecting 2,792 ... you’re also playing a direct role in protecting endangered gorillas in the wild.” Launched seven years ago, the Gorillas ...

We know the gorilla in the video is a mature male because of the silver hair on his back. Given his bravery in checking out the humans, this silverback is likely the dominant male of his troop.