Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue to surprise science with their knowledge. A new research paper published in ...

For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.

Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, ...

An orangutan has been seen applying the leaves of a plant commonly used in traditional medicine to a cut on its face, seemingly to hasten healing. It is the first case in the scientific record of a ...

For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. Mujur, a ...

Playing a “do-as-I-do” game with "wookies": An orangutan and a human I'm always looking for interesting and novel research on nonhuman animal (animal) cognition to share with readers, and a recent ...

The great apes have a great diet.Vogel said that while orangutans reduce physical activity during low fruit periods to conserve energy, humans - especially those with couch potato lifestyles - may not ...

KHQ.COM - Orangutans may be more closely related to humans than scientists previously thought, a new genetic study has shown. The first blueprint of the orangutan genetic code has confirmed that they ...

Welcome to jungle school—where orphaned orangutans are learning the basics for survival that they will need for life in the ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognised the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, ...