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

When TikTok user Megan Lyn took a recent trip to the Greenville, South Carolina Zoo, she got to experience a rather goofy ...

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

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.

A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern Sumatra — a grim sign of how severely recent floods and landslides may have ...

Scientists have documented a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. Reading time 3 minutes Humans aren’t the only primates with a ...

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 ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - It was a special day at Cameron Park Zoo. On Saturday, a baby shower was held for Mei, an orangutan.

An orangutan in a protected Indonesian rainforest site who sustained a facial wound treated the injury himself, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports earlier this month. The ...

Journalists often must write depressing stories. But thankfully that’s not always the case. In fact, when the job has its perks, it really has its perks. Like when two of us, both devoted followers of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Tuesday, the Indianapolis Zoo introduced its newest resident, a male baby orangutan, to zoo visitors. It was the first time that orangutan mom Sirih has brought her baby into ...