Vets had a very unusual patient pop in for treatment on an agonising toothache – a giant 29-stone silverback gorilla ... Koeppel has worked with over 400 big apes like gorillas, orang-utans ...

Veterinarians received an out-of-the-ordinary patient, a huge 29-stone silverback gorilla suffering from severe tooth pain. The South African zoo's chief breeding primate, Binga, exhibited signs ...

When a wildlife cameraman was invited to film the gradual exposure of a gorilla family to humans ... Suddenly, the giant silverback - known as Mpungwe - charged at him with a shriek.

There are just over 1,000 mountain gorillas in existence and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) described Rafiki's death as a "very big blow". The silverback, believed to be around 25-years-old ...

When we got to the gorilla cage, there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas," Tyson said. "They were so powerful, but their eyes were like an innocent infant.

What is less normal is for the sufferer to be a 29-stone silverback gorilla. That, however, was the situation that confronted Professor Katja Koeppel of the University of Pretoria, an expert in ...

Thanks to a partnership between the Pretoria National Zoological Garden and the University of Pretoria (UP), a 23-year-old silverback gorilla named Binga recently underwent a complex dental ...

Binga, a 23-year-old silverback gorilla weighing 180 kg, recently underwent a unique dental surgery at the National Zoological Garden in Pretoria to address severe periodontal disease.

April 5, 2023 Bokito at the age of 20. Photo: Novum / Rob Doolaard Bokito at the age of 20. Photo: Novum / Rob Doolaard Silverback gorilla Bokito, who caused headlines around the world after escaping ...

“We knew something was up because our guide and the rangers kept talking about a big surprise,” she ... headed up by a dominant male gorilla known as a silverback due to the saddle of silver ...