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At an Ohio zoo, a noteworthy senior citizen has turned another year older.
One of the gorillas at Zoo Atlanta has been under pressure lately. Zoo keepers, along with undergraduate students from Georgia Tech and reseachers from Emory University, got a western lowland gorilla named Ozzie to voluntarily have his blood pressure taken by a machine students designed called the Gorilla Tough Cuff. Zoo officials say it's the first time a gorilla has ever voluntarily had its blood pressure taken in any zoo in the world.
A traumatized gorilla who carried around her dead baby's body for several days in a German zoo last year has given birth again — and this time her offspring is healthy.
The Dallas City Council has approved a $500,000 settlement for two families attacked by a gorilla at the Dallas Zoo in 2004.
A 390-pound gorilla grabbed some low-hanging bamboo to scale a wall at a South Carolina zoo Friday, escaping his enclosure and tackling a worker before returning to his pen about five minutes later.
Officials at a suburban Chicago zoo say a 48-year-old female gorilla has died following weeks of poor health.
The father of a 3-month-old western lowland gorilla abandoned by its mother at the San Francisco Zoo has picked a handsome name for his son.
A zoo in Texas has euthanized one of its three Western lowland gorillas because of declining health.
The oldest male gorilla in a North American zoo celebrated his 50th birthday surrounded by females and snacking on fruit.
The Budapest Zoo says a 32-year-old female gorilla has undergone gynecological surgery, the first such operation in Hungary and rare even worldwide.
Deep in the rebel-held forests of Congo's mighty Mikeno volcano, a world away from this Central African nation's latest fighting, a wild 440-pound mountain gorilla serenely rips a meal of bamboo stalks from the moist dark earth.
India's only gorilla is lonely. Even though Polo is 6 feet tall, dark-haired, bilingual and good-natured, the 36-year-old silverback gorilla is still single after a fruitless eight-year search.
An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla is back home at an eastern Maine flea market-style store two weeks after it was stolen and later dumped in a cornfield in Vermont.
The oldest gorilla in captivity, a 55-year-old female named Jenny, has died at the Dallas Zoo — her home for more than half a century, a spokesman said Friday.
An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla that was swiped in broad daylight from its longtime location outside a store has turned up several hundred miles away — with an apologetic ransom demand.
A gorilla at a zoo in the German city of Muenster is refusing to let go of her dead baby's body several days after it died of unknown causes.
A gorilla named Hercules who once bit a keeper at the Dallas Zoo but remained popular among visitors has died at the grand old age of 43.
A gorilla recognized as the world's oldest in captivity celebrated her 55th birthday by munching down a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats.
Veterinarians and pediatric surgeons combined their efforts to remove a cyst near the spine of a baby gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo, an operation they believe is the first of its kind.
Zoo officials plan to build a glass-walled enclosure to display Little Joe, a gorilla who escaped three years ago and mauled a 2-year-old girl.
Another western lowland gorilla died at the National Zoo on Monday, days after the zoo's only other adult male died while veterinary specialists tried to implant a cardiac device.
Ohio zoo celebrates 53rd birthday of world's oldest captive gorilla with cake, treats At an Ohio zoo, a noteworthy senior citizen has turned another year older. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on Tuesday celebrated the 53rd birthday of Colo.
Ooh ooh la la: Female gorillas at London Zoo eye up pin-ups of match from FranceWe all like to be given a sneak preview before meeting a date for the first time. And judging by their reaction to his photograph, the beau lined up for these three gorillas must be quite a dish.
Elephants Are Self-AwareResearchers (Plotnik, et al, reporting in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science ) working with Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at the Bronx zoo, conducted an MSR test.
GOP Rhetoric On A Downward Spiral: The Political Costs of UglyThis has not been a week in which the Republican Party has covered itself in glory.
South Carolina GOPer Apologizes For Racist Joke About Michelle Obama | TPMDCRusty DePass, a prominent South Carolina Republican activist and former state elections director, has now made an abject apology for having joked on his Facebook page that an escaped gorilla from a local zoo was an ancestor of First Lady Michelle Obama.
While Howling About Letterman And Palin, Hannity Ignores Comparison Of Michelle Obama To A GorillaSean Hannity has been up in arms for days over David Letterman's "vicious, vicious" joke about Sarah Palin's daughter, claiming that a similar attack on Michelle Obama by any conservative would bring ruination.
GOP Activist: Gorilla on Lam Just Michelle's Ancestor Turns out that pegging a primate as a member of the first lady's family tree on a public website might not be the best career move, as an activist in the South Carolina GOP is finding out.
Woman describes close encounter with escaped gorillaIt seemed the perfect day for Juanita McAllister Caldwell to take her energetic, 20-month-old son Jaelan for his first trip to the Riverbanks Zoo in South Carolina.
Rejected S.F. Zoo gorilla ready to meet public (With Video)It hasn't been the easiest of beginnings - rejected by his mother and raised by a different species. But it's a new day for Hasani, the 6-month-old endangered western lowland baby gorilla who makes his public debut today at the San Francisco Zoo.
Great apes 'laugh like people when they are tickled'Great apes laugh like humans when they are tickled, claim scientists, in a study that suggests the origins of laughter can be traced back more than 16 million years.
Time to return to war on terror, says Pakistani mediaThe victory of the lawyers' Long March has come at the cost of ignoring the 'two-ton gorilla in the drawing room', an editorial in a leading English daily said Wednesday, urging the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) that led the protest to show 'true solidarity against the men …
The following photographs have no rhyme or reason. None of my photos ever do. As I have mentioned, when I see something that I want to remember, out comes the camera. Many of the photos do not live up to the memory. Some are vivid.
So what do gorilla tourguides read? You'd expect Baumgartel or Fossey, but how about Thor Hanson and Farley Mowat!"The Impenetrable Forest" makes the list along with "Nearly Human" and "Agandi Bwindi"
Tampa police recover stolen State Vacuum gorillaTAMPA -- A fake gorilla that has been a Tampa landmark for more than 30 years was stolen Wednesday from outside State Vacuum on Kennedy Boulevard, the store owner said. A surveillance video shows two women removing the motorized gorilla.
Culture Shock May Explain Similarity Between HumansEver since researchers discovered in the 1970s that humans lacked the genetic variation expected of our population size, they have proposed that our ancestors went through a big squeeze: Volcanic eruptions, disease, or climate change created a population "bottleneck" that reduced …
Wii Sports is the Most Successful Videogame of All Time | VG Chartz.com - Video Game Sales Charts - Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Wii, PS3, Xbox360, DS, PSP, PCMario is finally topped. I hate to say this, but I've seen this coming. For more than a decade, Mario has gotten fat and lazy, just sitting on the couch eating pizza and letting the barrels roll right on by.... He's got no one to blame but himself.
Gorilla farts so bad zoo forced to apologizeGorillas at Chessington Zoo are in the mist of a stench caused by brussell sprouts. The Zoo in London was forced to issue an apology to guests after giving the gorillas a Christmas treat of Brussels sprouts.
Is this the Best TV/Web Commercial for 2008?Could this be the Best ever TV/Web Commercial for 2008? Let us know what you think.
"Phenomenal" Gorilla Baby Discovery in CongoDespite months of warfare in and around their home in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, a mountain gorilla family has been found thriving on a volcanic mountainside—as seen in this unedited video of park rangers documenting the family on November 26.
Congo's Gorilla Rangers Allowed To Return To Virunga National Park (Video)A video of returning Park Rangers cheering and being cheered!
Mammals Facing Extinction Threat | BBC NEWSAt least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade. More Articles
Pilfered primate returns to Maine storeAn 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla is back home at an eastern Maine flea market-style store two weeks after it was stolen and later dumped in a cornfield in Vermont.
Gorilla refuses to let go of her dead babyA gorilla at a zoo in the German city of Muenster is refusing to let go of her dead baby's body several days after it died of unknown causes.
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