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 ...

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 ...

BKSDA of West Kalimantan notes that as many as 439 wild animals, involving 28 species including orangutans, were rescued throughout 2017. The conflict has further magnified the extinction rate of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A small brain region reacts strongly to chimp calls. This shows that our voice system links to older primate signals.

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 ...

Video by @chesterzooWhat do you have to say to this adorable orangutan? 🦧❤️#chesterzoo #orangutans #funnyanimals ...

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 ...