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“When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.” --Dian Fossey

A photographer shared an incredible clip showing a 300-pound-plus silverback gorilla beating its chest inches from another photographer.

The Toronto Zoo is asking visitors not to show their phones to the gorillas. Turns out, too much screen time is bad for them, too.

Google's Photos app is still unable to find photos of gorillas -- eight years after a controversy over its "racist" algorithm which was mislabelling Black people as them.

A moving photo of a newborn gorilla's older brother touching its head has won the top prize in the 2022 Wilderness Safaris Africa in Focus photo awards.

The next time you find yourself wanting to take a selfie with a gorilla, you may want to think twice: a new research study has found that tourists who try to take pictures with wild mountain gorillas could be putting the animals in danger of getting COVID-19 and other diseases.

Video editor Paul Ross was visiting the Louisville Zoo recently when he came …

Flickr sparked some controversy back in May after it was discovered that the service's new autotagging feature was prone to mislabeling black people as "apes." It looks like Google Photos developers didn't learn from Flickr's embarrassing misstep: a Google developer is apologizing after it was found that Google's Photos app misidentifies photos of black people as "gorillas."

Wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas -- of adorable Meerkat photography fame -- recently went on a trip to the Republic of Congo to photograph a wild silverback gorilla. He came back with some awesome photos, which you can see below, but not without putting himself in a teensy bit of danger along the way.

Want to see what it's like to photograph wild gorillas up close and personal? Check out the clip above from the 1974 documentary Gorilla by Dieter Plage. It shows Belgian photographer and conservationist Adrien Deschryver in heart of Kahuzi-Biega National Park in Zaire, snapping pictures of gorillas from a short distance away.

In dramatic scenes the tale of an abandoned baby is shown in heart-stopping detail. Brought into the forest by Deschryver to help it adjust to its natural habitat, it begins to scream when it hears other gorillas, and is subsequently snatched from him by the dominant silverback. Stunning photography captures the sheer force of the silverback’s intimidating demonstration before he grabs the youngster.

Deschryver demonstrates one of the things you learn in Photographing Gorillas 101: don't run when they charge.

Mark Rober — the guy behind the gaping-hole-in-torso costume — recently came up with a creative way …

How do you get a silverback gorilla to put a GoPro HD camera up to its face? Stuff the case full of raisins, of course!

Toymaker Kid Robot has a line of DIY toys called …