Learn where orangutans live and eight amazing facts about them, plus WWF’s efforts to protect their habitats in Asia.

Human activities have severely impacted orangutans' survival and habitats. Michelle Desilets from the Orangutan Land Trust ...

Young orangutans cannot learn their diets alone. A new study shows that watching others gives them the knowledge they need to survive.

When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible ...

In a recent study, a team of researchers attempted to predict how the application of two global conservation ideas, Half-Earth and Whole Earth, would impact orangutan conservation on the island of ...

Orangutan means "person of the forest" in the Indonesian language. They are the largest arboreal mammal (which means they live in trees) and you can get to know some of them at Utah's Hogle Zoo. Jenny ...

In her own research in Uganda, Reddy studied four adolescent male chimpanzees who adopted their younger siblings after their ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia - Hoping to unravel the mysteries of human origin, anthropologist Louis Leakey sent three ...

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This article is brought to you by Audubon Nature Institute. Among the animals at Audubon Zoo, the orangutans are perhaps some of the most engaging when it comes to interacting with each other, ...

Migrant male orangutans on Borneo and Sumatra learn about unfamiliar foods in their new home range by 'peering' at experienced locals: intensely observing them at close range. This is what an ...

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 ...