Tempted by the fruit of a strangler fig, a Bornean orangutan climbs 100 feet into the canopy. With males weighing as much as 200 pounds, orangutans are the world’s largest tree-dwelling animals.

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

Orangutans are the only great apes in Asia, making their homes on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in the Malay archipelago. Orangutans are arboreal, meaning they primarily live in the trees.

Vandu and Raba are two Bornean Orangutans that have spent most of their lives in captivity at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a glaring juxtaposition from the their relatives in ...

Bornean orangutan Kyle climbs a web made of recycled fire hose in the Great Ape House’s outdoor habitat. Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

Bornean wildlife paid the price. The population of Bornean orangutans, found nowhere else in the world, declined by more than 50% over the last 60 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund ...

It said the birth had been "exciting news" for the zoo as Bornean orangutans were a critically endangered species. Keeper Georgina Barnes said the family had since been seen "cuddling up together".

Summer, the Bornean orangutan, gave birth to a healthy baby boy during the night on Sunday, Apri 28. There has been a lot of interest in the birth as Bornean orangutans are classed as critically ...

The habitat of Bornean elephants, which are generally smaller than elephants found in Africa, has decreased over the last 75 years, initially due to extensive logging, IUCN said.

This heartbreaking battle between an orangutan and the menacing digger was featured in an episode of BBC’s docuseries Climate Change: The Facts narrated by renowned naturalist Sir David ...