This heartbreaking battle between an orangutan and the menacing digger was featured in an episode of BBC’s docuseries Climate Change: The Facts narrated by renowned naturalist Sir David ...

Police raided the home of a Chinese woman in Phuket after a neighbour spotted an orangutan inside the property last week. However, no monkey was found during the search. The Phuket Info Centre news ...

A new report showed that critically endangered orangutans are losing their Indonesian habitat to palm oil plantations, according to Mongabay. The U.S.-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) used ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian businessman Hashim Djojohadikusumo planned to establish an orangutan sanctuary on Kelawasan Island, located in the Bay of Balikpapan, East Kalimantan. This island lies ...

IN no domain of zoological science have the con tributions of American naturalists been more splendid than in that of vertebrate palaeontology, and in the list of pioneer workers in this domain an ...

The research team has completed the genome maps of all six species of hominids, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, Bornean orangutans, Sumatran orangutans, and siamang. This research is ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) stated that most regions in Indonesia have entered the transition season from the rainy season to the dry season, known ...

Described as the ‘quiet one’, Cherie was born at Blackpool Zoo on April 9, 1977, where she has spent her life aside from a 17 month stay at Chester Zoo while a new orangutan house was built in ...

After more than two decades of work, researchers have achieved a genetics milestone: they have successfully sequenced the complete genomes of six ape species, a feat that seemed impossible just a ...

Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of ...