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 ...

However, the heaviest deadlift record is held by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who can deadlift 1104.5 pounds but still can’t beat the silverback gorilla’s record. Gorillas can easily defeat ...

Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo i s the only place where visitors can see the largest gorillas in the world: the eastern lowland gorilla. The park is hoping ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Humans and gorillas alike are mourning the sudden ... to the San Francisco Zoo in 2004 and becoming the “silverback” of the troop. “Oscar was the silverback of ...

He was a cantankerous, grizzle-haired silverback, a likable tramp who showed up in the range of Group 5, a gorilla family that lived close to camp. A student helper rushed in to tell me about the ...

Mountain gorillas generally live in groups of several females with their young and usually one dominant adult male – known as a ‘silverback’ because of the patch of silver hair on his back and hips.

The zoo is currently home to the UK's oldest silverback gorilla. Credit: Jon Drew. Gorillas have been left "distressed" following a number of break-ins at the former site of Bristol Zoo.

The zoo didn't specify what type of medical procedure the gorilla underwetn. Oscar Jonesy was born in 1981 and had resided at the Buffalo Zoo for many years before becoming the "silverback" or ...

They're doing somersaults and climbing on the backs of their Silverback fathers, who seem so patient. Tell us what a typical trip to see the mountain gorillas entails. CJ: You buy a permit to ...