At a forest school in Borneo, baby orangutans learn tree-climbing skills from their human surrogate parents. The orphans spend 12 hours a day in the forest, preparing for a new life in the wild.

A critically endangered orangutan born at Blackpool Zoo ... “extremely high” risk of extinction in the wild. Rufus is the second Bornean baby orangutan to arrive at the zoo after more than ...

“At the time we started here, no one had really worked on hormones in wild apes,” she says. “People said I was crazy.” Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans ...

Michaela and Steve are encouraged by the progress of Grendon, Ellie and Lomon - the orphaned baby orangutans who are being re-trained for a life in the wild. In the 'Forest School' classes ...

British photographer Aaron Gekoski has documented human-wildlife conflict for more than a decade. His latest project exposes the horrors of baby orangutans captured from the wild in Malaysia and ...

Monkey World has become a renowned rehabilitation centre for baby orangutans to be cared for by their own kind. View on ...

She was blinded, and she had a baby who was a few months ... arms like babies,” he said. Orangutans are very smart. They are known to make simple tools in the wild, whether it’s to help ...

This story appears in the October/November 2016 issue of Nat Geo WILD magazine. Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of ...

A Sumatran orangutan named Rakus has been observed using a medicinal plant to treat an injury on its cheek in a remarkable display of the the sophisticated health practices of animals in the wild.