“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 ...

An orangutan bit a zookeeper’s hand through a mesh barrier, causing a serious injury, a Washington zoo said. The incident happened Saturday, March 29, at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, the zoo ...

Together with their children, they’ve made it a family mission to reveal new threats to the great apes in their rain forest homes. The Nat Geo WILD show Orangutans on the Edge: Mission Critical ...