April 8 (UPI) --To calculate the size of a live gorilla, scientists must rely on an advanced imaging technique called photogrammetry. But when gorillas size each other up, they just listen. New ...

Although the chest-beating of male gorillas is a common behavior, its purpose still isn't entirely understood. Now, however, scientists believe it may serve as a means of acoustically indicating the ...

The closest most people will come to see a gorilla beating its chest is while playing Mario Kart or watching King Kong movies. But the sound in real life is markedly different, as evidenced by a viral ...

Chest beating by mountain gorillas - rapidly beating their chests with their hands to produce a drumming sound - may convey information about their body size and allow identification of individuals, a ...

Some behaviors are instinctive and others have to be learned. This is as true for people as it is for the other members of the animal kingdom. Perhaps you, like me, may have thought until this moment ...

Gorillas usually stand bipedally and rapidly beat their chests with cupped hands in rapid succession. Chest beating is a unique sound because is it not a vocalization, like frogs croaking, but rather ...

Previous research has shown that a gorilla's larger body size is linked to reproductive success and social rank. The chest-beating could be another way for the gorillas to convey their size to others ...

Here's something you don't get to see every day - it's a huge silverback gorilla beating on his chest while a photographer watches, and if you ask me, the distance between them is too close for ...

The pioneering primatologist destroyed the myth of gorillas as savage brutes before being killed by human hands, 40 years ago ...

The moment was first shared by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas and quickly picked up by Yahoo News. According to ...

The moment was first shared by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas and quickly picked up by Yahoo News. According to ...