A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern ...

Utah’s Hogle Zoo is sharing a sweet holiday moment as baby orangutan Weila shows off her first tiny teeth. She is almost nine ...

Weila, a six-month-old baby Bornean orangutan, is determined to swing for the fences. The sweet baby orangutan is being ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A study led by Caroline Schuppli, a researcher from the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior and the University of Tbingen, reveals the life patterns of orangutans in ...

Orangutans, rather like their cousins (us), don’t much care for rain. That much became clear this week when Memphis Zoo shared a heartwarming video of how some of the animals who live there fared when ...

Orangutans live in forests that demand patience, memory, and long training. Young apes watch every move their mothers make. Each gesture becomes a clue: which leaves to trust, which fruits to avoid, ...

When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of how to acquire and process them. A ...

A zoo in the United Kingdom announced the birth of a rare baby orangutan in October, marking a major success for animal conservation. The mother, a female Bornean orangutan, successfully gave birth at ...

The San Francisco Zoo announced Thursday it will be transferring its last three chimpanzees to other facilities and placing its decades-old chimp program on hiatus, marking another significant shift ...

WACO, Texas — The Cameron Park Zoo in Waco may soon welcome a new bundle of joy. The zoo has announced that orangutans Mei and KJ are expecting a baby, reportedly due in January! The zoo will ...