In 1996, a 3-year-old boy tumbled 24 feet into a gorilla enclosure at an Illinois zoo. Then, a Western Lowland Gorilla named ...

Planet of the Apes might be right in this no matter their own biases, considering that, if it comes down to no weapons at all, a gorilla is likely able to defeat anyone in its path pretty easily.

Apes include a rather broad range of simians (higher primates) from the Old World. Generally, if it’s not a monkey, people will colloquially call it an ape. Apes can be split into two families ...

In this case, the combatants are, to one side, a group of 100 unspecified men — and, on the other, a single gorilla, one of those noble herbivorous great apes found in equatorial Africa.

Planet of the Apes is a film franchise that’s approaching 60 years with 10 films total, and several reboots, some more questionable than others. The first Planet of the Apes was a satirical ...

Apes recognize photos of groupmates they haven't seen for more than 25 years and respond even more enthusiastically to pictures of their friends, a new study finds. The work, which demonstrates ...

Given that apes are humanity’s closest relatives in the animal world, it makes sense that they would serve as an enduring source of fascination. The movies have had a particularly strong ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows.. Researchers from Johns ...