Only gorillas have retained their reputations intact.
Why do hummingbirds and gorillas both have backbones ?
Is Rollie an exception, or are all gorillas as clever?
But that view of gorillas may not be deserved.
Rich in wildlife, including forest elephants and gorillas.
More than 100 rangers have lost their lives trying to protect the gorillas of Virunga.
Scientists have long believed that human beings evolved from primates like gorillas.
Emily, 22, says Keena has got along well with other gorillas in her basketball suit.
We're the only species with language, we told ourselves-until gorillas and chimps mastered sign language.
When scientists set out to trace the roots of human laughter, some chimps and gorillas were just tickled to help.
'Chimps and bonobos spend a lot of time in the trees. And gorillas do not, ' Schmitt said.
The zoologist had spent along time living with gorillas and had saved the life of a junior gorilla.
All four subspecies of gorillas are listed as endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
For their research, published in the American Journal of Primatology, scientists studied chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas from zoos in Japan and Indonesia.
These adaptations -- long legs and arches in our feet -- represent major differences between us and our distant primate relatives including gorillas, chimps and bonobos.
Animals with robust jaws, like gorillas and orang-utans, have long been known to be adapted to eating foods that require a lot of chewing.
There was once a physical therapist who traveled all the way from America to Africa to do a census about mountain gorillas.
Yet 30% of the zoos in the survey reported that their gorillas had killed some local wildlife, and in at least one case had eaten a bird.
The western lowland gorillas, who share the same father, were rejected by their separate first-time mothers after they gave birth to them at the park near Canterbury, Kent.
The male took as many carrots as he could hold in hands and, as gorillas usually walk on four PAWS, he put as many carrots in his mouth as he could.
The gorillas - caught up in the region's civil wars, preyed on by poachers, and crowded out of their homes by mining and logging industries - are already endangered across Africa.
