“People said I was crazy.” Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans can be captured only by killing their protective mothers. These orphans are being raised at ...

By Rhett A. Butler Orangutans have long captured the human imagination, their expressive eyes and human-like behaviors ...

Orangutan expert Leif Cocks combines science, philosophy and stories and offers a compelling case for a shift in how we see, ...

After millions of people were ordered to flee along Florida's Gulf Coast, the African elephants, Caribbean flamingos, pygmy ...

Woodland Park Zoo is preparing to welcome its first orangutan birth in 35 years, as 14-year-old Batu nears the end of her ...

The pointing orangutan meme is a TikTok trend around an orangutan named Amber, who likes to point at objects to make humans interact with them. The behavior has encouraged people in the area near ...

As the meme spread from its birthplace to other parts of Facebook and then to sites like Twitter and Reddit, people began to replace Sam the Orangutan with other animals and characters who fit ...

Secret Lives of Orangutans, now streaming on Netflix, is the latest nature documentary to feature the rich, evocative narration of David Attenborough as it observes a group of orangutans living ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo officials said Monday they are expecting the arrival of its first orangutan baby in over three decades. Fourteen-year-old Sumatran orangutan Batu (bah-too ...

One of the Toronto Zoo’s orangutans got up to some monkey business on Thursday when he briefly escaped his outdoor habitat. According to posts on its social media, the zoo was notified by a ...

Hollywood superstars like Leonardo DiCaprio occupy an unusual position in popular discourse. On the one hand, they are at the ...

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists. It is the first time a creature in the wild has been ...