NEW ORLEANS — Two popular but endangered escape artists are leaving the Audubon Zoo in hopes that they'll make some babies. Berani, a male Sumatran orangutan, and Casey, a male western lowland gorilla ...

For the better part of two decades, Casey and Berani have enthralled and educated visitors to the Audubon Zoo by doing the sorts of things gorillas and orangutans do: sitting, sleeping, snacking, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two popular but endangered escape artists are leaving the Audubon Zoo in hopes that they’ll make some babies. Berani, a male Sumatran orangutan, and Casey, a male western lowland ...

Last week the Dallas Zoo announced that it was shipping one of its largest, most popular residents to the Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina. Patrick, a 430-pound silverback male ...

A new project has kicked off at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo that will create a 140,000-square foot primate forest that will expand and create a new home for the zoo's gorillas and orangutans.The ...

The ability to form a general concept that connects what we know about the members of a category allows humans to respond appropriately when they encounter a novel member of that category. At an early ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For the last six months, three orangutans at the Milwaukee County Zoo ...

The world's oldest fertile gorilla and orangutan in captivity, Matze and Charly, jointly celebrated their 50th birthdays with a cake each at Frankfurt Zoo on Thursday. Matze the gorilla was born in ...

Rudi is the oldest male orangutan in North America, according to the zoo. He's also the zoo's longest resident and they have the baby pictures to prove it. Rudi was only two months old when he arrived ...

Curator of primates, Courtney Eparvier interacts with Birani, a male Sumatran orangutan through glass at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Birani, a male Sumatran orangutan ...

Recently the media had a field day with reports of a "sexist" male gorilla in Dallas named Patrick. Anthropologist Barbara King reflects on... Last week the Dallas Zoo announced that it was shipping ...