Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to ensure their offspring ...

"This is a devastating loss," zoo officials said after Makan's condition rapidly worsened over the weekend.

After weeks of voting, the Denver Zoo's baby orangutan finally has been named.

Makan, a 23-year-old male Sumatran Orangutan living at the Sacramento Zoo, has died from a long-term illness, officials ...

Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance is home to a new orangutan. The zoo's 15-year-old Sumatran orangutan Hesty gave birth to a ...

Orangutans may use specific plants for benefits beyond ordinary nutrition. For centuries, humans have relied on the medicinal properties of plants. Now, growing evidence suggests we may not be the ...

Nearly seven per cent of the world's rarest great apes have been tragically wiped out by four days of extreme rain and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Alba, the world's only known albino orangutan, now has her own personal ...

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises—but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story. Those ...

The Atlanta zoo is mourning the loss of one of its founding apes, a 52-year-old Sumatran orangutan named Biji whose medical condition helped her species throughout the U.S., zoo officials said. Biji ...

Orangutans, which are classified as great apes, share 96.4% of human genes, according to the World Wildlife Fund Orangutans at an Indonesian zoo are proving that fashion is certainly a primal instinct ...