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

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

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.

An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the treetops of a rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia; a day later, they spotted ...

An orangutan youngster whose birth was captured on camera has been named to remind wildlife fans of the great ape's struggle in its native habitat. The little ape, born at Vienna Zoo in Austria last ...

PHOENIX — A doctor more accustomed to treating human beings recently saved the life of an orangutan at the Phoenix Zoo in a first-of-its-kind surgery in the United States. The zoo’s executive ...

Orangutans, rather like their cousins (us), don’t much care for rain. That much became clear this week when Memphis Zoo ...

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) – Staff members at Metro Richmond Zoo were determined to teach Zoe the orangutan how to nurse successfully when she needed help breastfeeding. Zoe’s first baby, ...

ANTHONY THANK YOU. IT’S ANOTHER STEP FORWARD FOR OMAHA’S HENRY LOUIS ZOO AND AQUARIUM. CRITICS SAY YOU WERE THERE TO SEE THE PLANS. YEAH, WELL, THIS AFTERNOON WE GOT TO LOOK AT DESIGNS FOR THE ...