Look at those big, beautiful eyes! People online are cheering after a baby orangutan and 16 other wild animals were saved from a smuggling ring in Chumphon, Thailand. Things could've been so bad for ...

A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to recovery” after he was kept in a “tiny cage" amid “unthinkable” conditions for six months. In an Instagram post on Jan. 8, The Orangutan ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Clinging shyly to his mother, six-week-old Jambi made his public debut Wednesday ...

The Cameron Park Zoo in Waco may soon welcome a new bundle of joy. The zoo has announced that orangutans Mei and KJ are expecting a baby, reportedly due in January! The zoo will celebrate mom Mei and ...

The LA Zoo on Thursday is celebrating the arrival of its first baby orangutan in nearly 15 years. The baby boy Bornean orangutan was born to 43-year-old mother Kalim and 31-year-old father Isim on Oct ...

The L.A. Zoo Thursday is celebrating the arrival of its first baby orangutan in nearly 15 years. The baby boy Bornean orangutan was born to 43-year-old mother Kamlim and 31-year-old father Isim on Oct ...

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

Sirih ventured into the atrium for the first time in five days, glancing over the crowd of onlookers clustered behind the glass. They couldn’t seem to peel their attention off her and the small, alien ...

The 18-month-old primate had "wounds on his head and fingers from rocking and banging his head on the cage," according to his rescuers Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her ...