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

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

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

The Sacramento Zoo is mourning the death of Makan, its male Sumatran orangutan.

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

One of the newborn orangutan twins born at Taipei Zoo earlier this week died early on Wednesday, while its sibling was in ...

One of the newborn orangutan twins born at the Taipei Zoo earlier this week died early yesterday, while its sibling remained ...

Protecting the world’s rarest great ape is not a rejection of development. It is a fundamental test of whether Indonesia can ...

Walter the orangutan has made his World Cup prediction. At a zoo in Poland, he chose the German flag over Paraguay's by ...

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 ...

As far as the eye could see, waist-high oil palm seedlings had already been planted in neat rows across the freshly turned ...

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