Why and when the legendary colossus — which has captivated the popular imagination as “the real King Kong” — disappeared ...

Vandu and Raba are two Bornean Orangutans that have spent most of their lives in captivity at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a glaring juxtaposition from the their relatives in ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo officials said Monday they are expecting the arrival of its first orangutan baby in over three ...

Disney film Mighty Joe Young isn't as memorable as King Kong but caries a narrative even more impactful than the MonsterVerse ...

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

SEATTLE — For the first time in 35 years, an orangutan will be born at the Woodland Park Zoo. 14-year-old Batu is nearing the end of her pregnancy and is expected to give birth soon. Batu ...

One of the Toronto Zoo’s orangutans got up to some monkey business on Thursday when he briefly escaped his outdoor habitat. According to posts on its social media, the zoo was notified by a ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, I set off for Borneo to study orangutans. I knew how closely related they were to humans, but when I actually experienced the orangutans first hand, I found the similarities ...

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists. It is the first time a creature in the wild has been ...

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.