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

Oklahoma City's two Sumatran orangutans will be leaving soon after the pair failed to mate. Elok and Negara, the male and female orangutans at the Oklahoma City Zoo's Great EscApe habitat, will be ...

Young orangutans master the art of building intricate treetop nests not by instinct alone, but by closely watching their mothers and peers. Researchers tracking wild Sumatran orangutans over 17 years ...

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A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Dozens of orangutans forced to box each other in a Thai amusement park returned home Wednesday to start a new life in a jungle reserve on their native island of Borneo, officials ...

Mukah was having a lazy summer morning like any other 24-year-old, sitting in the shade munching on Chex mix and tinkering on an iPad. Yes, that Mukah, the Bornean and Sumatran-mixed orangutan at the ...