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 ...

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

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tiny primate clutched his mother, eyes just barely open. Only five days old, the unnamed orangutan was the newest arrival to the Indianapolis Zoo community. His mother, Sirih, carried the ...

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 ...