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

Orangutan young highly depends on the social guidance of their mothers to know the safe food list for consumption.

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

The proverb "necessity is the mother of invention" has been used to describe the source from which our cultural evolution springs. After all, need in times of scarcity has forced humans to continually ...

The great apes have a great diet.Vogel said that while orangutans reduce physical activity during low fruit periods to conserve energy, humans - especially those with couch potato lifestyles - may not ...

Orangutan mothers will teach their young to forage for food — then cut them off when they are old enough to know better, new research shows. By Nicholas Bakalar Young orangutans seem much like human ...

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

Sebangau National Park is a very large area (568,000 ha) in the southern part of Borneo, in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan. Wide areas bordering the Sebangau National Park became ...

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