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

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 ...

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 ...

Finally, casual chest pounding is done to assert themselves as leaders. A silverback gorilla might pound his chest a few times as a gesture to get the other gorillas in the group to follow him.

On Saturday, the 17-year-old Western lowland silverback gorilla was shot and killed after a 4-year-old boy fell 15 feet from the railing of the animal’s exhibit and into the enclosure.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.