ATLANTA — A 50-year-old gorilla who became a beloved figure at Zoo Atlanta after spending several decades in a Tacoma department store has died, zoo officials said Tuesday. Ivan, a male western ...

“There aren’t any words to describe what a great job it was,” Joyce Barr said. She looks wistful for a moment and then the words flow. Barr was of two women who were the last keepers for Tacoma’s most ...

Joyce Barr, right, and Connie Harris hanging a photo of Ivan inside the Key Center Library last year. David Montesino Staff file, 2016 The Key Center Library and the Gig Harbor library were recently ...

It took 110 pieces of pulverized acrylic to assemble a life-sized gorilla. The parts came out of the 3-D printer in all shapes and sizes, but it was the head — of Tacoma’s iconic Ivan the gorilla — ...

Ivan, one of Zoo Atlanta's resident silverback gorillas, chews on his finger in his exhibit at the zoo in Atlanta in this file photo. He died at the zoo Monday, but for years was exhibited at a Tacoma ...

“The One and Only Ivan,” a tale of a gorilla who makes a new life for himself after being moved from a tiny cage in a mall to a zoo, won the John Newbery Medal for the year’s outstanding contribution ...

Lisa Wathne spent seven years of her life working at PAWS in Lynnwood trying to get Ivan the gorilla released from a Tacoma department store. Ivan lived for 27 years in a concrete enclosure at the B&I ...