Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels ...

Learn where orangutans live and eight amazing facts about them, plus WWF’s efforts to protect their habitats in Asia.

Wild orangutans adapt their diet to food availability to maintain overall health balance. A wild orangutan. CREDIT/Ilya Raskin·Rutgers University A new study has confirmed that orangutans in tropical ...

A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on ...

Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically endangered on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where they’re endemic. Mongabay has extensively ...

It’s snack time at the orangutan jungle school in Nyaru Menteng. But one lovable male, Beni, is on a very strict diet. Undeterred, he’ll try every trick in the book to get past his keepers. From the ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo officials said Monday they are expecting the arrival of its first orangutan baby in over three decades. Fourteen-year-old Sumatran orangutan Batu (bah-too) is nearing the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, a group of researchers documented the first observed instance of a wild Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) actively treating a facial ...