The phone rang at the Edge Rock Gym on Philips Highway. It was someone from the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens with an unusual request: Would some of the gym’s best climbers try to escape from a new ape ...

Summerville is home to the only gibbons sanctuary in the United States. Gibbons are a type of ape, and they need your help to make their home livable again after Hurricane Matthew. “You know they're ...

Below is the previous story: Editor’s Note: The video featured in this story was published on June 13, 2022. The San Diego Humane Society continued Wednesday to care for "Mighty Joe Young," a dog who ...

LONDON — A London Zoo silverback gorilla briefly escaped his enclosure Thursday but did not make it to any public areas, officials said. Metropolitan Police received a call just after 5 p.m. asking ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sedgwick County Zoo has completed its investigation into the October orangutan escape. The 11-year-old orangutan, named Tao, made her way out of her enclosure through a ...

BROOKFIELD, Ill. -- Archive video from WGN shows the amazing rescue of a little boy who fell into the ape enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo in 1996. Saturday's incident involving a little boy who fell ...

A 31-year-old chimpanzee at the Edinburgh Zoo has died after a fight with its troop. Rene, a male ape, was severely injured in the fight, the zoo authority said. “Our expert keepers did everything ...

Given the current state of the world, let me be the first to say it: I, for one, welcome our new ape overlords. The Planet of the Apes movies aren't a reality... yet, but proof that primates are ...

Kigito the gorilla looked, walked and attacked just like any of the primates in the "Planet of the Apes" series. But he wasn't in that universe, he was in ours. In Omaha, actually, at the Henry Doorly ...

The San Diego Humane Society continued Wednesday to care for "Mighty Joe Young," a dog who found his way into the gorilla enclosure at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park last weekend. On Sunday, the dog ...