Aerial surveys confirmed the presence of nearly 1,000 fresh nests across the area, indicating recent use by the rare orangutan group. When learning of the globally significant population of this ...

Orangutans do this a lot when they’re mad ... only one dominant flanged male maintains control over a local group of females. Many males in the area retain smaller bodies and don’t develop ...

Nearly 200,000 people have signed a petition calling on U.K. multinational Jardine Matheson to cancel its plan to expand ...

Yet Hadisiswoyo and his group do make progress. Since 2001, they’ve returned more than 2,500 acres of forest to habitat land. And that orangutan from the rickshaw? The police questioned the ...

The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a male baby orangutan to its Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. This makes it 12 official primates that live at the zoo. The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on ...

A rare orangutan is named after a mascot for a group which helps children after intestinal failure. Dublin Zoo's 19-year-old orangutan, Mujur, gave birth to a healthy male baby at the end of July.