Before the king's burial, his subjects take their time to clean his body. It is not a ritual that should be lightly interfered with and, as the mighty, fallen monarch receives his last ablutions, ...

In 1974, an infant mountain gorilla was born in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Researchers named him Titus. As is typical for young gorillas in the wild, Titus spent the first years of his life ...

Titus sired more children than any other gorilla on record A MIGHTY Silverback gorilla dubbed “The King” once starred in a popular film with Sigourney Weaver. The young gorilla first starred in ...

‘NATURE,” one of PBS’ most enduring and en dearing series, has a show on Sunday night that you simply should not miss if you are at all a, er, nature lover. This one, called “The Gorilla King,” took – ...

Titus, the world’s best loved and most studied gorilla, has died. The magnificent 35-year-old silverback ‘succumbed to old age’ after falling ill, the Rawanda national parks office said. Known as the ...

Alone at the summit of a mist-shrouded volcano, an old gorilla crouches beside a crater lake, staring forlornly at his reflection in the crystal-clear water. He remains there for hour upon hour, as if ...

The Gorilla King steps down from his kingdom. When the phone rang and I heard someone from The Gorilla Fund on the line, I got all excited. I knew it would be an update about Titus, the gorilla ...

Titus - the most famous silverback in Africa known as "The Gorilla King" - has died in Rwanda at the age of 35. He was the subject of a BBC documentary last year, and was studied by naturalists ...

A silverback gorilla from the jungles of Rwanda has died aged 35. Titus found fame after he was filmed climbing on Sir David Attenborough's back in the 1979 BBC documentary Life on Earth. Sir David ...

A MIGHTY Silverback gorilla dubbed "The King" once starred in a popular film with Sigourney Weaver. The young gorilla first starred in "Gorillas in the Mist", a film about the famed gorilla ...

The compelling story of one of the most successful mountain gorillas that has ever lived - a huge silverback called Titus. The programme starts in 1967, when the researcher Dian Fossey first made ...