A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 ...

A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 ...

Orangutans, with their expressive eyes and human-like behaviors, have long fascinated us. Few people, however, have delved as deeply into their world as Gary L. Shapiro. His five-decade career ...

Dublin Zoo has announced the death of its "much-loved" female Northwest Borean orangutan. It said Leonie was "an iconic presence since her arrival from Rotterdam Zoo in 1984". The 44-year-old "was ...

an 8-month-old female orangutan named Qixi is fueling a different concern. Videos of Qixi — dressed in baby clothes, styled with twin braids, and sometimes wearing sunglasses — are regularly featured ...

An orangutan got a taste of freedom when it ventured outside a new outdoor habitat at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday, and the area is now closed to guests and media until further notice, the zoo says.

The “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” might not be far off. A chimpanzee at a China zoo proved that we’re indeed quite alike ...

At six months old, human infants are still working on sitting up by themselves. But baby orangutans at that age are already developing their engineering skills. Orangutans build complex sleeping ...

Now, it’s the orangutan’s turn. Through a combination of traditional recording and analysis with artificial intelligence (AI), scientists pinpointed three distinct types of pulses in the ...

Malaysia has said it plans to start an “orangutan diplomacy” programme for countries that buy its palm oil. The Southeast Asian nation is the world’s second biggest producer of the edible ...

An orangutan in Indonesia has been observed appearing to treat a wound with a medicinal tropical plant – the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies ...

With their bright eyes and prominent beards and mustaches, it’s easy to see how orangutans got their name; “orang” is Malay for person, while “hutan” means forest. Their similarity to ...