Four of the five Great Apes are found here: Mountain gorillas, Lowland gorillas, Chimpanzees and Bonobos.
These include camels, zebras and snakes, but not elephants, monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees or big cats.
The zoo staff has trained the gorillas to go through the basic electrocardiogram without being anaesthetised.
Few species land on their heel: bears, humans and great apes -- chimps, gorillas, orangutans.
Hunters, disease and habitat loss are decimating our closest living relatives--chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos.
While baseball goes for Muppet-like characters, the NBA favors tough animals--bulls, mountain lions, coyotes, gorillas--acting goofy.
Central African lowland gorillas like Koko are threatened by logging and poaching in their natural habitats.
As the baby progresses, volunteers who have worked with gorillas may be added to help.
On Wall Street, gorillas are companies so big and strong they have few competitors.
"It shouldn't terrify you because they're looking for cancer and not gorillas, " he said.
Gorillas, which discourage dalliances between other males and the females of their harem, have small testes.
At least nine gorillas are known to have been killed in Virunga National Park last year.
Female gorillas live 12.5% longer than males, and women about 8% longer than men.
Nor are poachers any longer the only people who make money out of the gorillas.
ECONOMIST: The number of mountain gorillas appears to be rising
As a result, the Virunga gorillas' future looks brighter now than it has for many years.
ECONOMIST: The number of mountain gorillas appears to be rising
He said the bonobos were probably more vulnerable than common chimps and lowland gorillas.
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It said Pattycake surpassed the median life span for gorillas in zoos, which is 37 years old.
The 30 components of the Dow Jones industrial average each qualify as gorillas in their own right.
"There are documented cases of the gorillas getting caught in the crossfire and getting killed, " she said.
The BBC spent a day with the "gorillas' cardiologist" while he visited his big patients at the zoo.
It's far easier to kill elephants, tigers and gorillas than to save them.
Gorillas, orangutans, and other chimps live with him in the compound, and Caesar quickly becomes a leader of apes.
In West Africa the Ebola virus killed 5, 000 gorillas in just one corner of the Republic of the Congo.
Gorillas are our closest relatives, after chimpanzees and bonobos, having diverged from our common ancestors 8 million years ago.
She said the gorillas and other wildlife in the park are in danger of getting caught in the crossfire.
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The seizure forced hundreds of rangers who normally monitor the gorillas to flee.
But allowing gorillas and chimpanzees to die, or killing them off, won't improve people's lives: it will impoverish them.
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The legislation imposes a general ban on the use of great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, in scientific tests.
The answers to the 800 pound gorillas in the budget (social security, medicare, medicaid, military and government pensions) are there.
Animals such as giraffes and zebras roam the park outside the tent and campers can also see gorillas, leopards and elephants.
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