Mboka Jo, born last September, is carried by his mother, Gladys, a western lowland gorilla, at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden on April 2, 2026. (Cara Owsley/ The Enquirer) The Cincinnati Zoo ...

You don’t see that every day: at the Woodland Park Zoo in Washington state, a darling little gorilla was born via Caesarean ...

These birds are on a wing and a prayer. Emperor penguins, indigenous to Antarctica, are now at a frighteningly high risk of death by drowning due to drastic climate change. The prognosis for the black ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way among many that climate change is transforming life at the bottom of the ...

Pumas returning to Patagonia have begun hunting mainland penguins that evolved without land predators. Scientists estimate that more than 7,000 adult penguins were killed in just four years, many of ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Gentoo penguins are notoriously difficult to study due to their remote habitats spread across the South Pacific. A new study, which aims to settle ...

A new report finds thousands of African primates, including chimpanzees and gorillas, are being traded both legally and illegally. Most of the legal trade in great apes is for scientific and zoo ...

Research shows that heart disease is a long-recognized and persistent medical challenge for gorillas living in zoos, especially adult males. In these managed care systems, many western lowland ...