Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of ...

The cheerful Duke Dennis is walking around, holding hands with an orangutan, and getting in the car like best buddies! Bet ...

A male wild orangutan died after being electrocuted while hanging from an electric cable in the residential area of Palangka Raya ...

Primate staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Washington, D.C., are mourning the loss of Kyle, a 28-year-old male Bornean orangutan who died ...

Look at those big, beautiful eyes! People online are cheering after a baby orangutan and 16 other wild animals were saved from a smuggling ring in Chumphon, Thailand. Things could've been so bad for ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Illegal deforestation has reportedly surged to record levels in a wildlife reserve at the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra ...

The first-ever recorded albino orangutan has been released into the wild, nearly two years after it was first discovered by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF). Alba was rescued by the ...

Steve tries to rescue a baby orangutan being illegally held in a village. Show more Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard present a series featuring orphaned and rescued orangutans in Borneo.

Malaysia has said it plans to start giving orangutans as gifts to major trading partners who buy its palm oil. Commodities Minister Johari Abdul Ghani said the country hoped to generate the same ...