Kembali the orangutan was able to leave his habitat after swinging in "cartwheel-like motions" Getty This orangutan was just monkeying around! On Thursday, Aug. 29, an orangutan named Kembali escaped ...

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 ...

For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. Mujur, a ...

Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented. Rakus, a male Sumatran ...

An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the treetops of a rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia; a day later, they spotted ...

WASHINGTON — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...

When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed ...

The baby Sumatran orangutan marks the first orangutan birth at the Sacramento Zoo since 1981 The Sacramento Zoo has a new addition, and he is seriously adorable. On May 1, the California zoo's ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Clinging shyly to his mother, six-week-old Jambi made his public debut Wednesday ...