Worldwide, the most frequent causes of disturbances to ape habitats are land conversion for agriculture or logging, a recent study concludes. The study found that the most common ways apes adapted ...

When cinema audiences are discovered sauntering bowlegged down the city streets of Britain this summer, like John Wayne with an over-full nappy, Tim Burton's new Planet Of The Apes will almost ...

Human activities such as mining, agriculture, urbanization, damming and logging threaten the habitats of great apes in Africa and Asia. Apes have shown resilience to these disruptions by adapting ...

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes had some clever viral marketing that was creative for the time, but wouldn't be acceptable today.

With four movies released so far (there are additional installments in development), the Planet of the Apes series has no shortage of great moments that wowed viewers. Koba steals every scene he ...

GENEVA -- The Zurich Zoo’s beloved gorilla of more than 40 years has been put down after a long struggle with declining ...

The Little Rock Zoo has officially announced the name of its newborn gorilla with a special ceremony this morning.Beni, the ...

Catherine Tidwell, an animal keeper at the zoo, who works closely with the great apes, has a special connection with the mother gorilla, Adelina. She has watched the gorilla grow from a young ...

pushing some of the rarest great apes closer to extinction. The illegal trade targets some of the region’s most threatened species, most crucially the critically endangered Cross River gorilla ...