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 ...

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.