Memphis Zoo celebrated International Orangutan Day with Chickie, one of their four Sumatran orangutans, enjoying toys and her ...

World Orangutan Day 2025 highlights urgent conservation needs as new research shows orangutans share human-like behaviors.

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of orangutans live beyond the borders of protected areas, often very near forest villages where they've been historically ...

Through often-startling stories detailing the wonder of wildlife, a Melbourne environmentalist hopes to convince people that the natural world is worth saving.

An orangutan at the Phoenix Zoo recently underwent surgery for a rare form of cancer. Zoo officials confirmed it’s the first ...

A primate sanctuary has appealed for public funding to help it feed a baby orangutan, which has allergies. Monkey World Ape ...

In the early days of BOS Foundation’s orangutan rehabilitation centers, there were playgrounds for the many orphaned orangutans, but it was quickly apparent that these would not be enough to ...

Orangutan in the wild applied medicinal plant to heal its own injury, biologists say By Bill Chappell (NPR) May 3, 2024 1:05 p.m.

An orangutan named Rocky is helping scientists figure out when early humans might have uttered the first word. Rocky, who is 12 and lives at the Indianapolis Zoo, has shown that he can control his ...

An orangutan at Australia's Perth Zoo was captured on video "evicting" a possum that had invaded its enclosure by hurling it from the top of a tall tower in front of shocked visitors.