A baby gorilla left orphaned by his birth mother after she failed to bond with the newborn has been taken in by a foster mom. Seattle-born Abeo, a Western Lowland gorilla, was rejected by first ...

He taught her to study tree branches to detect movement and direction, and to look for knuckle prints in the ground and chains of dung left by groups of gorillas on the move. The first time she ...

The Flames of Disaster is both a move by the character Knuckles of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe and a line by Wade Whipple in the TV series. As played by Adam Pally, the human character ...

Scientists have turned their attention to investigating that most annoying of human habits - the sound made when you crack your knuckles. The characteristic pop can be explained by three ...

The caption read: "He walks like a Gorilla, and he's so good at it! His name is Hassan Michael." In the 22-second clip, ...

Dr Chris van Tullekan questions that piece of perennial parental advice: don’t crack your knuckles or you’ll get arthritis! One researcher, Dr Donald Unger, actually cracked the knuckles of ...

The hunting, trading and consumption of gorillas – and other apes – is almost universally illegal in all Congo Basin countries. However, poaching continues unabated due to a lack of enforcement of ...

He also stressed that the Ulas’ form of quadrupedalism differs from that seen in our closest animal relatives – chimpanzees and gorillas – in one key way. Whilst these primates walk on their knuckles, ...

Shortly after dawn two mountain gorillas swing gracefully over the ... the silverbacks stroll downhill through cultivated fields—knuckle-walking at first, then upright on two legs.

These great, glorious, fur-coated apes are some of our closest relatives. Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for ...

This story appears in the January 1970 issue of National Geographic magazine. For the past three years I have spent most of my days with wild mountain gorillas. Their home, and mine, has been the ...

The zookeepers of London Zoo announced this week that they were all "grinning from ear to ear" following the birth of a gorilla. So, as the youngest inhabitant of the Regent's Park menagerie ...