People could learn from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a healthy, balanced diet, say scientists. They found that, be it feast or famine, the primates adapt with "flexible" eating patterns.

People could learn from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a healthy diet, say scientists. They found that, be it feast or famine, the primates adapt through “flexible” eating patterns. The ...

Nutrition in Wild Orangutans: Insights Into Human Health will feature information about orangutan diet, behavior, and physiology that can shed light on the current obesity epidemic in modern day ...

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

Orangutans, humans’ close evolutionary relatives, have developed remarkable strategies to survive in the unpredictable rainforests of Borneo. A Rutgers-led study reveals that these apes balance ...

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 ...

Meet Oshine, the overweight orangutan. She's been put on a healthy diet after becoming the fattest primate in Britain, meaning no more goodies for the podgy primate. The obese orangutan is the latest ...

In more than 20 years of field research, Rakus is the first orangutan to be observed using a medicinal plant to treat wounds. Armas / Suaq Project via Max Planck Institute In June 2022, a team of ...

A wildlife park has put a orangutan on a diet so that she can be returned to the wild. Jackie was 'spoilt' on junk food after being discovered by villagers when she was 2 years old. She weighed over ...