“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 ...

A likeness of Ivan the gorilla is coming to Tacoma in the form of a life-size bronze sculpture. And his own DNA is incorporated, as his ashes are added to each pour that will form the finished piece.

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 — ...

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 — ...

So begins journey into the mind of the late celebrity gorilla, Ivan, who lived almost 28 years in solitary confinement in a cage in a circus-themed shopping mall near Tacoma, before being “retired” to ...

So begins journey into the mind of the late celebrity gorilla, Ivan, a star at Zoo Atlanta until his death last August. ExploreIvan the gorilla of Zoo Atlanta dies As we learn in the children’s book ...