MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee County Zoo has announced that male silverback gorilla Azizi, 20, can be seen with his new family unit in the Stearns Family Apes of Africa building. Azizi arrived at the Milwaukee County Zoo on Jan. 10 from Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. For the first time, he’s now leading a family […]
A video of two Texas zookeepers who unexpectedly found themselves enclosed in an exhibit with a gorilla has gone viral. The video posted on TikTok Thursday shows the silverback gorilla named Elmo enter his display yard while two employees were still inside at the Fort Worth Zoo. The ape is seen following the shadow of […]
Guests watched in shock as the two zookeepers navigated their way to safety after a mishap left them enclosed with the gorilla Getty Stock image of a gorilla from the Fort Worth Zoo In October, two keepers at the Fort Worth Zoo found themselves in an enclosure with a silverback gorilla The situation went viral […]
When a wildlife cameraman was invited to film the gradual exposure of a gorilla family to humans, deep in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he got a little too close for comfort to the group’s alpha male. Suddenly, the giant silverback – known as Mpungwe – charged at him with a shriek. […]