“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 ...

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 ...

There's some good news about the survival rates of orangutans in protected forests on the Malaysian island of Borneo. Numbers have stabilised over the last 15 years, according to a new study by ...

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 ...

The orangutan lived in the house in Johannesburg ... Dr Cronin said Oshine had nothing to do all day but "sit around on her backside and eat". Once Monkey World, located in Dorset, England ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nora Murphy visited Mujur in April with her now 10-month old daughter Elodi A group of breastfeeding mothers have been enlisted by Dublin Zoo to try to help an orangutan bond with her newborn.

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.

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