Video posted to Twitter shows the orangutan atop a tree as a crowd looks on. Video taken at amusement park Busch Gardens in Tampa shows an orangutan in a tree after it escaped its enclosure. Bryan ...

Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse ...

Wendy Erb has spent countless hours studying orangutans in Borneo's tropical peatland forests in order to learn how male Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) communicate. While doing so, she ...

Tree kangaroos and Sumatran orangutans at Perth Zoo were treated to early Christmas treats as the zoo got into the festive spirit. Footage Perth Zoo sent to Storyful on Christmas Eve shows orangutans ...

A pair of orangutans have begun exploring two new climbing towers built in their habitat in Melbourne Zoo. Zoos Victoria told Storyful that crews constructed the “tree-mendous” new towers for the ...

Every year on August 19, the world observes International Orangutan Day to raise awareness about the urgent need to protect one of our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom. This day reminds ...

When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed ...

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...

The LA Zoo on Thursday is celebrating the arrival of its first baby orangutan in nearly 15 years. The baby boy Bornean orangutan was born to 43-year-old mother Kalim and 31-year-old father Isim on Oct ...

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