A pair of wild western lowland gorillas in Africa have surprised researchers by engaging in face-to-face mating, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today. Though the behavior had been ...

Wildlife Conservation Society. (2008, February 13). Unique Mating Photos Of Wild Gorillas Face To Face. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 02 ...

Apes can remember scary film scenes "Often, animals have to be taken back to the zoo they came from without mating," Thomas Bionda, a behavioral biologist at the zoo, told Dutch broadcaster NOS .

A small-bird species, the Japanese tit (Parus minor), uses wing movements as a gesture to convey the message 'after you,' according to new research. When a mating pair arrives at their nest box ...

Four eastern lowland gorillas have been released into the wild in Virunga National Park, ... when Mwasa was spotted mating with Ndjingala, a 16-year-old female, for the first time.

The apes didn’t show recognition of their reflections — but they did show off their moves. “The body becomes stiff, and then these robot-dance-like movements commence,” Dr. Caspar said.

However, this can be explained by gorillas' mating system, said Jacob Bowman, lead author of the new study and a postdoctoral researcher at the University at Buffalo. You may like ...

Male gorillas have very small penises and testes, and produce a low amount of sperm. Previous studies have attributed this to their polygynous mating system.

Bonobos have a reputation of being the hippies of the ape world, due to their propensity to “make love, not war.” But a new study reveals that bonobos, found only in the Democratic Republic of ...

Four eastern lowland gorillas have been released into the wild in Virunga National Park, DRC, in the largest translocation of the species ever.

Four eastern lowland gorillas have been released into the wild in Virunga National Park, ... when Mwasa was spotted mating with Ndjingala, a 16-year-old female, for the first time.