A survey has found populations of elephant, gorillas and chimpanzees in and around two national parks in southeastern ...

In a dark, almost impenetrable forest in southern Uganda live huge, near-mythical creatures which remind us of ourselves.

Over at Gorilla Kingdom, there was no trouble luring the seven-strong troop of western lowland gorillas from their pens for visual confirmation of their numbers. Its two newest members – Juno and ...

Plans for 11 new homes on the eastern edge of Melksham have been approved by Wiltshire Council. David Wilson Homes requested permission for the development on land off Angelica Avenue, to the west of ...

While it was an accident, the incident highlights the importance of taking extreme caution when caring for endangered animals ...

Last year saw the arrival of two baby western lowland gorillas, three Asiatic lion cubs, an okapi, 53 evolutionary extinct frogs and some leeches. The stocktake, which began on Friday morning ...

In a blow to the already critically endangered western lowland gorilla population, a primate was killed in November after being hit by a hydraulic door at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada. As The ...

GIPs may change the environment determining alterations in GIM composition. We evaluated the associations between GIP infections and fecal microbiome composition in two habituated and two unhabituated ...

London (AFP) – With bunches of lettuce and bucketloads of nuts, London Zoo kicked off its annual animal count Friday, coaxing everything from goats to gorillas out of their enclosures for the ...

Among the animals to be counted are a colony of 65 Humboldt penguins and a troop of critically endangered western lowland gorillas. “The reality is we always know how many animals we have at the ...

Staff at London Zoo readied their clipboards and calculators on Friday as they began to count more than 10,000 animals during the annual stocktake. The stocktake is a requirement of the zoo’s annual ...