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She had a spunky personality she showed off by either loudly indulging in her favorite snack or throwing her bedding from her ...
Kwizera, a 37-year-old gorilla at the Memphis Zoo, died unexpectedly on July 6. Zoo staff attempted to revive her but were ...
Kwizera was adopted into the Memphis Zoo family in 2009, coming from Buffalo, New York, and joined the zoo's first cohesive ...
In 1996, a 3-year-old boy tumbled 24 feet into a gorilla enclosure at an Illinois zoo. Then, a Western Lowland Gorilla named ...
In the viral video two gorillas can be seen spending their quality time in the woods. A female tourist approaches the male ...
Kwizera, who had lived up to 37 years old, died "unexpectedly" earlier this month after what the zoo called "a brief illness.
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Every year on July 4, Penny Patterson throws a birthday party near her Woodside, Calif., home. There are the usual markings of such an occasion — wrapped presents, a cake with candles, the ...
The Gorilla Foundation said that through Patterson's tutelage, Koko learned more than 1,000 words in sign language and came to understand more than 2,000 words spoken to her in English.