A zoo in the UK has welcomed the arrival of a critically endangered Bornean orangutan. Born in the early hours of October 7, ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max ...

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 instances ...

CENTRAL TAPANULI, Indonesia — Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world’s rarest great apes, was believed to live only in the Batang Toru forest of ...

Video posted to Twitter shows the orangutan atop a tree as a crowd looks on. Video taken at amusement park Busch Gardens in Tampa shows an orangutan in a tree after it escaped its enclosure. Bryan ...

From the first, it was an adventure. In 1971, at age twenty-five, Galdikas left the placid world of American academia for the remote jungles of Indonesian Borneo. Living with her husband in a ...