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

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

For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. Mujur, a ...

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 ...

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, scientists reported ...

Kembali the orangutan was able to leave his habitat after swinging in "cartwheel-like motions" Getty This orangutan was just monkeying around! On Thursday, Aug. 29, an orangutan named Kembali escaped ...

When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed ...

ST. LOUIS — The name of the newest primate of the Saint Louis Zoo pays homage to one of the zoo's partners. Forest, the three-and-a-half-week-old baby Sumatran orangutan, was named after the zoo's ...

An orangutan in a protected Indonesian rainforest site who sustained a facial wound treated the injury himself, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports earlier this month. The ...

Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented. Rakus, a male Sumatran ...