They believe he was injured fighting with rival male orangutans because he made loud cries called "long calls" in the days before they saw the wound. The team then saw Rakus chewing the stem and ...

Vivy, a critically endangered Bornean orangutan, has returned to the rainforest with help from The Orangutan Project and the Bornean Orangutan Rescue Alliance Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

Kembali the orangutan was able to leave his habitat after swinging in "cartwheel-like motions" This orangutan was just ...

Everyone was close to crying.” It’s not unusual, he said, for the caretakers to form an emotional connection with the apes. “I wasn’t allowed to touch (the orangutans), but all the ...

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

There's some good news about the survival rates of orangutans in protected forests on the Malaysian island of Borneo. Numbers have stabilised over the last 15 years, according to a new study by ...