An orphan orangutan climbs high in the treetops with his caregiver While much of the world is in lockdown, youngsters in one very unusual classroom are still having lessons. At a forest school in ...

To decipher orangutan conversations, researchers used traditional sound analysis methods along with machine learning tools ...

Discovered in the ultramafic mountains in central Sabah, the species was named for the orangutan, due to its hairs’ striking resemblance to the great ape’s long, dark, rusty-red hair.

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

Over the past few months, the zoo arranged for 30 new mothers to take turns to breastfeed their children in front of the pregnant orangutan, as part of a lactation learning process. Mujur ...