Rafiki was known to visitors as “the thinker” because he often posed like the famous statue, zoo officials said. During his 10 years at the zoo, Rafiki captivated hundreds of thousands of guests.

After a brief, sudden illness, a beloved gorilla at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo died Wednesday, the zoo announced, eliciting an outpouring of sadness and support from its Facebook community. Rafiki, ...

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King Nyani is based on an actual gorilla, the head of a family of mountain gorillas that Gillie and Marc met on a trip to Uganda. It is almost 23 feet long, 8.5 feet high and weighs 4,766 pounds.

A four-and-a-half ton bronze sculpture of a silverback mountain gorilla named King Nyani has been placed by the NYC parks department in Bella Abzug Park in the Hudson Yards neighborhood of ...

Four poachers were arrested this week in connection with the killing of a rare silverback gorilla in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a lush preserve of mist-shrouded hillsides and ...

A gorilla known for her tickle fights was euthanized due to age-related health decline, a Colorado zoo said. A western Iowland “gorilla icon” named Roxie who was known by Cheyenne Mountain Zoo ...

When Garry the silverback gorilla went missing from a Victorian retirement community, investigators knew they wouldn’t put up with that kind of “monkey business”.