One of the gorillas at the Memphis Zoo died July 6, the zoo announced on X July 14. The 37-year-old gorilla, named Kwizera, ...

A gorilla died at the Memphis Zoo earlier this month, the zoo announced in a social media post on Monday. The post says ...

Kwizera was adopted into the Memphis Zoo family in 2009, coming from Buffalo, New York, and joined the zoo's first cohesive ...

Kwizera, who had lived up to 37 years old, died "unexpectedly" earlier this month after what the zoo called "a brief illness.

Koga was born Aug. 14, 1987, at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, where he spent the first seven years of his life before moving to the Memphis Zoo, where he spent the next 13 years.

At 7 years old, the primate was relocated to the Memphis Zoo where he lived for 13 years before finding his home at the Buffalo Zoo in April 2007, ... silverback western lowland gorilla. Buffalo Zoo ...

Kwizera was adopted into the Memphis Zoo family in 2009, coming from Buffalo, New York, and joined the zoo's first cohesive ...