Copito de Nieve (Snowflake), the world’s only known white gorilla, died on Monday in the Barcelona zoo, officials said in the northeastern Spanish city. The albino gorilla, which was estimated to be ...

There has only been one albino western lowland gorilla ever found in the wild or captivity. Snowflake the gorilla lived in the Barcelona Zoo for 36 years and he was the world’s only albino gorilla.

Snowflake the albino gorilla at the Barcelona Zoo. Snowflake died of skin cancer in 2003. (Photographic archive of the Barcelona Zoo.) Snowflake the albino gorilla at the Barcelona Zoo. Snowflake died ...

For decades after people first tried to keep gorillas in captivity, any gorilla’s path from the forest to the zoo was soaked in blood. As NATURE’s Snowflake: The White Gorilla shows, the animals had ...

Here's a photo of the world's rarest gorilla. It's a bit blurry because it was taken from footage. But, those black fuzzy shapes are of the Cross River gorilla, of which there are only 250 in the ...

Snowflake (Ariana Grande) is special. She's the only white gorilla in the world, and the zoo's main attraction. Children love her, but the other gorillas, Petunia (Jennette McCurdy), Elvis (Nathan ...

Albino animals seem to be everywhere these days. This month alone, we've seen an albino squirrel, an albino magpie, an albino kangaroo and an albino alligator. In this gallery, we look at various ...

A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the ...