At Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, little Sumomo was an absolute darling. The rambunctious 2-year-old rolled around on straw, playfully teasing her older siblings. Shabani, the western lowland gorilla at ...

It is the third gorilla birth in the zoo's 115-year history but the first gorilla to be born via cesarean section. Dr Jamie Walker Erwin led the surgery with neonatologist Dr Robert Ursprung and D ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Zoo Knoxville is mourning after losing a Western lowland gorilla. Kowali passed away at the age of 47. The gorilla had been at Zoo Knoxville since 2013 and was a mother ...

Zoo Knoxville shared the news of gorilla Kowali’s death on Wednesday. According to the zoo, the 47-year-old gorilla was a mother of four and had been with the zoo since 2013. In an interview ...

Formerly part of Kaneiji Temple, Ueno Park is now home to the Ueno Zoo (considered Japan's oldest zoo), six museums, a number of shrines and temples, and more than 1,000 cherry blossom trees.

At Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens ... the family of Shabani, the zoo’s popular western lowland gorilla, had some “trouble” with their new neighbor, a chimpanzee family.