This story appears in the October 1971 issue of National Geographic magazine. Two black hairy arms circled the tree trunk. A moment later a furry head appeared. Bright eyes peered at me through a ...

The Ohio zoo believed Sully the gorilla, who arrived at the facility in 2019, was a male until they found the primate cradling a baby gorilla on July 20 Columbus zoo/Facebook It's a girl!

This story appears in the April 1981 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was Digit, and he was gone. The mutilated body, head and hands hacked off for grisly trophies, lay limp in the brush ...

Some behaviors are instinctive and others have to be learned. This is as true for people as it is for the other members of the animal kingdom. Perhaps you, like me, may have thought until this ...

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 ...