Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of our DNA. Orangutans are the only great apes in Asia, making their homes on ...

Around 12,000 years ago, they also lived in Borneo. Today, you can only find Javan rhinos in one place on Earth ... Because ...

“It had a mystique that was larger than life,” said my father, who read about all these animals when he was a child growing up in India. Until a few decades ago, Borneo was covered in tropical ...

MR. WALLACE, in his work on the “Geographical Distribution of Animals,” has the remark that no volcano, active or extinct, is known to exist within the area of the island of Borneo ...

The 18-month-old primate had "wounds on his head and fingers from rocking and banging his head on the cage," according to his ...

Their expressions and behaviours grab my attention in a way few other groups of animals do ... UK were dispatched to a city on the island of Borneo where proboscis monkeys are present.

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

The discovery of a new orangutan population in Sarawek, Malaysian Borneo was cause for excitement ... pygmaeus has only around 3,000-4,500 animals left in the wild. At least 2,000 of this number ...

Orangutans can live around 35-40 years in the wild, while the oldest orangutan to live in captivity died at age 62, according ...