Maka the gorilla, cherished by staff and visitors, dies from cardiac event. San Diego Zoo community shares touching memories amid deep grief.

On the heels of last week’s devastating loss of a beloved polar bear and giraffe, the San Diego Zoo on Tuesday announced that ...

Zoo officials are calling it "one of the most challenging periods in recent memory for our San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance family." ...

SAN DIEGO — Maka, a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla at the San Diego Zoo, died this week. He was surrounded by the ...

The San Diego Zoo was hit with another tough loss Tuesday, announcing the death of a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla ...

Maka, a Western Iowland gorilla, "was diagnosed with chromosomal abnormalities" at age 5 but lived with "grace and vitality ...

The San Diego Zoo announced Wednesday the death of Maka, a 30-year-old Western lowland gorilla, just days after staff ...

The baby, whose sex is yet to be determined, was born to Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla, the zoo said. The father is another zoo resident, Baraka, who’s 31, and the parents ...

Primate keepers—with help from the western lowland gorilla troop—revealed that the baby gorilla born May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is female. Pictured are ...

Patty, an 11-year-old western lowland gorilla, is the newest resident of the Louisville Zoo's Gorilla Forest habitat, according to a release. Patty was born at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and ...

Alafia, another western lowland gorilla at the zoo, is receiving daily training to prepare her in case she needs to help Tumani care for the infant or act as a foster mother. Along with Tumani and ...

The Audubon Zoo in New Orleans is celebrating the birth of an endangered western lowland gorilla at the facility – its first gorilla birth in more than two decades.