A baby orangutan at the Siri Park & Zoo by Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Laem Chabang, Thailand, has clearly embraced that idea. Fufu ...

There is a new bouncing baby primate at the Little Rock Zoo. Zoo officials announced the birth of an orangutan Friday morning. This is the second baby born for Berani and Bandar, who gave birth to ...

Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) female 'Jaki' aged 16 years with baby daughter (Credit: Alamy) Eight months later I found myself in central Sumatra on top of a little hill, in front of me a ...

Knowing little about Borneo, rainforests or orangutans, I figured my best chance to meet orangutan minds was on shared ground. I was lucky. Shared ground existed in the form of centers that help ...

A team of botanists at Malaysia's Sabah Forestry Department's Forest Research Centre, working with a pair of colleagues from ...

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

Let's all say happy birthday to Azy! The orangutan turned the big 4-7 recently at the Indianapolis Zoo in Indianapolis, Indiana and he did so in style, chomping down on a delicious birthday cake pop.

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...