When the zoo closes, a zookeeper brings a gorilla home to live with his family, and his son gains a new friend.

Mrs. Goldberg refuses to let her son have a pet until she meets a gorilla named Irving.

Bob Claus tries to make up for last year's Christmas havoc by building an android that can help his brother, Santa, by delivering toys in a gorilla-driven sleigh, but despite his good intentions, things go horribly wrong.

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

Betty the gorilla gets very upset when she is unable to peel her banana, and every effort Mr. Toucan makes to help her only seems to make things worse.

Tour guide Jungle Jed tells the gorillas to go to bed, but they can't seem to stop playing.

When her best friend, the sailor Henry Koskela, is falsely accused of murder, a gorilla named Sally Jones visits the run-down docks of Lisbon, embarks on a dizzying journey across the seven seas, and calls on the Maharaja of Bhapur's magnificent court--all in an attempt to clear Henry's name.