When you're a baby orangutan facing a long and daunting trip abroad, a bit of luxury goes a long way. Kiwi was given a ...

“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 ...

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

Vivy, a critically endangered Bornean orangutan, has returned to the rainforest with help from The Orangutan Project and the ...

This was the HOCRU team – the Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit – and they had just fired a dart loaded with sedative into the body of the mother orangutan. Their intention was to remove ...

Rakus the orangutan seems to have a surprisingly decent grasp on first-aid. He lives in Gunung Leuser National Park in South Aceh, Indonesia, where scientists from the Institute of Animal Behavior ...

Woodland Park Zoo’s 15-year-old orangutan Batu miscarried her nearly full-term fetus, according to the zoo. This was Batu’s ...

A baby orangutan born in a Spanish conservation centre has travelled first class across the English Channel to get special ...