Apes

Dian Fossey was an American zoologist known world wide for her championing the cause of Mountain Gorillas. Fossey caught her first glimpse of Mountain Gorillas in 1963 on a field trip to East Africa, when she also met Louis Leakey. It was Leakey who persuaded Fossey to return to Africa and make a long-term study of the Gorillas. After poachers killed one of Fossey's favorite gorillas, Digit, she dedicated her time to campaigning against the...  

Listed as critically endangered by IUCNs Red List, the Cross River gorilla numbers perhaps fewer than 300 across its entire range in Cameroon and Nigeria. This video was taken in Cameroons Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary, home to an estimated 16 gorillas.  

The ape's jump resonated strongly with me. I sure liked the way he shocked all those holiday-wrapped onlookers, as if he were a Christmas window gone haywire. Did it have to do with some big issue about society, captivity, the vanishing grandeur of nature? Then I heard a lanky, pasty-faced fellow standing next to me say of the ape's rage: "It's like working in a home office." Suddenly the zoo looked like my work world, the world of small...  

NOVA ventures deep into the Congo to examine a group of apes called bonobos. Study of these gentle apes came to a halt in 1997, when civil war broke out in the Congo. Now, veteran bonobo researchers are returning to find out the status of the apes ...  

WASHINGTON -- A woman from Cameroon has been found to be infected with an AIDS-like virus that came from gorillas, French researchers reported on Sunday. The woman, who has no symptoms of HIV infection, is well and was likely infected by another ...  

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society says that western lowland gorillas living in a large swamp in the Republic of Congo -- part of the "mother lode" of more than 125,000 gorillas discovered last year -- are becoming increasingly threatened by growing humans activity in the region.  

For the second time in as many days, a gorilla undergoing treatment for cancer was euthanized after zoo veterinarians said her health had dramatically deteriorated.Katie, a 36-year-old female gorilla, was euthanized shortly before noon Wednesday by veterinarians at the zoo's Hanes Veterinary Medical center. Katie had been at the North Carolina Zoo since July 1989 after being transferred from the San Diego Zoo.On Tuesday, zoo vets decided to...  

Conservationists say two baby mountain gorillas have moved to a lush jungle sanctuary formerly closed to them because of violent instability in eastern Congo.Virunga National Park director Emmanuel de Merode said Wednesday the gorillas moved Tuesday into their new home in the park. The orphaned gorillas were forced to live in a house in the bustling city of Goma for two years because of fighting in eastern Congo.Female orphans Ndeze and...  

... Foundation, a British charity which for more than 20 years has managed two gorilla rescue and rehabilitation projects, one in Congo-Brazzaville and another in the neighbouring state of Gabon, where wild populations were almost hunted to ...  

Appnoose LTD has announced Gorilla Monkey Crunch 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. Gorillas everywhere are up in arms after word got out that Apple approves of Gorilla Monkey Crunch for Thanksgiving. While the local Monkey delegation could not be reached, officials reported small primate riots breaking out all over America and angry monkeys throwing coconuts at anything that moved. Apple had no comment on the matter.  

RUMANGABO, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The habitat of rare mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being threatened by charcoal production, officials said. Thousands of kilns mounded from dirt within the 3,000 ...  

BBC NewsNew habitat for orphaned baby gorillasBBC NewsTwo orphaned baby mountain gorillas are settling into their new home at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...Orphaned baby gorillas get lush new jungle homeNECNOrphaned gorilla babies return homeUPI.comOrphaned Mountain Gorilla Babies Return Home to Congo National ParkScience Daily (press release)all 20 news articles »  

Charcoal trade threatens gorillas Report: U.N. effort in DRC failing Tons of gold smuggled from Congo annually U.N. says DRC clashes displaced thousands Congo refugees warned not to return home KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 18 (UPI ...  

The Wildlife Conservation Society says gorillas living in a large swamp in the Republic of Congo are increasingly threatened by human activity. The gorillas are part of a group of more than 125,000 gorillas discovered last year in swamp forests ...  

Wild elephants are one of the most aggressive and feared animals in the jungle, but that doesn't stop poachers from risking it all to hunt them. Poaching has become the number one threat to iconic, endangered animals like elephants, gorillas, bonobos ...