Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse ...

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

A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered ...

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

It will be years before the orangutans, approximately a year old, are ready to go back into the wild, according to the head ...

An orangutan stumbled into a remote Indonesian village and was welcomed with open arms. The encounter was captured on videos posted on social media where villagers said the orangutan looked hungry and ...

“Male orangutans are so problematic to study in the wild that the window into their reproductive lives has stayed closed,” says Max Planck scientist Maria van Noordwijk, the first author on the paper.

First-time mom Reese the orangutan and her newborn are said to be doing well following the baby's birth at the Audubon Zoo. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

A TikTok video with 28 million views shows an orangutan examining sunglasses dropped in its habitat. TikToker @minorcrimes posted the video, which they said was taken at a zoo in Indonesia. Great apes ...

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