When I, Erik Meijaard, worked as a wildlife consultant for a timber concession in Borneo, I often chatted with the logging ...

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

Look at those big, beautiful eyes! People online are cheering after a baby orangutan and 16 other wild animals were saved from a smuggling ring in Chumphon, Thailand. Things could've been so bad for ...

Naples Zoo's popular orangutan habitat will welcome two new residents—a mother-son pair of white-cheeked gibbons. Millie, a 22-year-old female, and Kapok, her 3-year-old son, recently arrived from Zoo ...

The closest living relatives of humans are the apes such as chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons. We all had the same common ancestor that lived during the Miocene epoch (23 million to 5 ...

The San Francisco Zoo announced Thursday it will say goodbye to its three remaining chimpanzees as it temporarily shutters ...

Take the tunnel shaped like a tree trunk across from the polar bears and the elephant ears, and you will find yourself at one of the most popular spots at the Oregon Zoo: the orangutan enclosure in ...

According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the black crested gibbon is now a Critically Endangered species. It’s unfortunate, considering the gibbon is one of the world’s most majestic and ...

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The Erie Zoo is home to numerous primates, including the black-handed spider monkeys, Bornean orangutans, lesser spot-nosed guenons, Allen's swamp monkeys, siamang gibbons and lemurs shown here in ...

A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates. Published in Nature, these sequences uncover ...