The APES Atlas: A Platform for Monitoring Great Ape Conservation
The APES Atlas was created in 2018 to centralize information on apes worldwide. It is an open-access plat-form that provides site-level information on…
[details]Western Gorillas
Western gorillas generally have a shorter and lighter pelage than eastern gorillas. There are two subspecies: western lowland gorillas and Cross River gorillas. Zoo gorillas are almost exclusively western gorillas.
Geriatric Gorillas
![[Translate to Englisch:] Colo](/fileadmin/news/Colo.jpg "[Translate to Englisch:] Colo")
December 22, 1956, was a historic day for the zoological world as we welcomed the first successful zoo gorilla birth - a female, eventually named Colo…
[details]Club des Amis des Gorilles
An isolated population of gorillas lives in the Ebo forest, Cameroon, between the Cross River gorillas and the western lowland gorillas south of the…
[details]A New Genetic Perspective on Gorillas
Over the last two decades genetic studies have greatly influenced our understanding of the complex evolutionary history of one of our closest living…
[details]Human Impact on Gorilla Behaviour
Western lowland gorilla tourism exists on a considerably smaller scale than that of the high profile mountain gorillas. Yet the successful habituation…
[details]