The western gorilla subspecies, threatened by hunting and habitat loss from deforestation, is estimated to only have 200 to 300 mature individuals left in the wild, according to the World Wildlife ...

Humans and gorillas share around 98% of their genetic makeup. So it’s not surprising they exhibit human-like behaviors, ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine how our genetic history differs from theirs.

The gorilla has but one species of two subspecies and not 15 or more, as scientists previously believed, declares H. J. Coolidge, Jr. '27, assistant curator of mammals at the Museum of Comparative ...

One of the two threatened species, subspecies of the western gorilla is the western lowland gorilla. The western lowland gorilla is a calm, non-aggressive species in danger of sickness and poaching.

which determined that she was actually a Grauer’s gorilla, a subspecies of the eastern gorilla. She was moved to a sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to join other Grauer’s ...

The first full genome sequence of the mountain gorilla, one subspecies of the eastern gorilla, suggests a that the population has been declining for 100,000 years, resulting in limited genetic ...

A baby gorilla that was seized by Turkish authorities is recovering at an Istanbul zoo after it was discovered in the cargo hold of a Turkish Airlines jet last month. The five-month-old gorilla ...