This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For the last six months, three orangutans at the Milwaukee County Zoo ...

A new project has kicked off at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo that will create a 140,000-square foot primate forest that will expand and create a new home for the zoo's gorillas and orangutans.The ...

The ability to form a general concept that connects what we know about the members of a category allows humans to respond appropriately when they encounter a novel member of that category. At an early ...

ATLANTA - There's more for scientists to learn about the behaviors of great apes and what might lead to heart disease. One Zoo Atlanta orangutan may play a crucial part in some of those medical ...

We’ve all heard or used the expression that parenting “doesn’t come with a manual” when discussing the difficulties of parenthood.When humans have questions about raising a child, they typically turn ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...