Harambe has become an increasingly popular meme choice for internet dwellers, even after coverage around his actual death has died down Though we’re not through the year yet, 2016 has already seen a ...

The Cincinnati Zoo, where Harambe the gorilla was shot dead earlier this year after a child fell into his enclosure, is “not amused” by the many memes of the massive animal circulating online. Harambe ...

Before Harambe died, he was just a gorilla. Now, he’s meme history. How did a zoo animal become the centerpiece of ironic Internet culture in 2016? The answer involves Black Lives Matter, celebrity ...

At the very end of May, a young boy climbed the fence that surrounds the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla enclosure. He fell. You probably know how the rest of the story goes: The boy survived the tumble only ...

What began as an offhand tweet wondering if 100 men could defeat one gorilla has exploded into a full-blown meme war across social media. Dudes are making lists of their 100 picks for the fight and ...

The zoo asks that the internet change this negative energy into lasting change for gorillas Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal ...

Flowers lay around a bronze statue of a gorilla and her baby outside the Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World exhibit days after a 3-year-old boy fell into the moat and officials were forced to kill Harambe ...