OSHINE, known as the world's fattest orangutan, ballooned to an astonishing 15 stone while on a diet of jelly and marshmallows before her miraculous weight loss. The obese ape was kept as an ...

“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 ...

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

Scientists who have been puzzling for years over the genetic "peculiarity" of a tiny population of orangutans in Sumatra have finally concluded that they are a new species to science. The apes in ...

Galdikas had been told by professors and peers that it would be impossible to study wild orangutans because they were elusive and lived almost exclusively in habitats that were swampy and remote ...

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 ...

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 ...

When infants are targeted, the traffickers usually kill their mothers so the trade represents a real threat to wild orang-utan populations. In addition, orang-utans are hunted in some areas for food ...

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 ...

快科技9月9日消息，都知道大猩猩聪明，但会手语的大猩猩你见过没？ 近日有网友在辽宁沈阳一动物园游玩时遇到了一只猩猩，视频显示，大猩猩 ...

A mind-bending photograph of an orangutan with the sky reflected in water has won first prize in the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2021 competition. The image, by Canadian photographer ...

Orangutans are bought online for as little as $109. When they outgrow their homes, they can be confined to cages. Image taken by Alejo Sabugo I’m a scientist and I’d like to think a good one ...