Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to its own wounds. A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was observed by German and Indonesian scientists chewing up the leaves ...

The diversity of orangutans extends even further—into differences whose origins continue to resist scientific understanding. From his perch high in the rain forest canopy of Sumatra, a big male ...

There are two different types of adult male orang-utan: flanged and unflanged. Flanged males have prominent cheek pads called flanges and a throat sac used to make loud verbalizations called 'long ...

An orangutan has been seen treating a wound using a plant with known pain-relieving properties, marking the first known ...

The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a male baby orangutan to its Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. This makes it 12 official primates that live at the zoo. The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on ...

The footage, which went viral on Indonesian social media, shows the male orangutan roaming across a chasm of sand streaked with white and black rocks, dug into land still surrounded by vegetation.

Both are healthy and progressing normally following the birth, and the newborn orangutan has been able to meet its father, a 23-year-old male named Basan, as well as a sister, 8-year-old Mila.

Here’s a question for you: how do you film a large, dominant, and allegedly aggressive male orangutan in thick, murky peat swamp forest, where humans get tangled and bogged down, and visibility ...

Minnie the orangutan at Mysuru Zoo receives expert care for pneumonia recovery, highlighting global conservation efforts.

"IT’S A BOY! Orangutan mom Sirih gave birth to a healthy male baby this afternoon," the zoo said in a social media post. The post said the baby and mom were "doing great" and that the zoo's animal ...