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, scientists ...

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 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 ...

The first-ever recorded albino orangutan has been released into the wild, nearly two years after it was first discovered by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF). Alba was rescued by the ...

Exact population counts are difficult to ascertain, but the World Wildlife Fund estimates there are only 120,000 orangutans left in the wild across all species. They have a low reproductive rate ...

An orangutan has been seen treating a wound using a plant with known pain-relieving properties, marking the first known ...

An Indonesian rehabilitation in Borneo has released 10 orangutans into the wild. The endangered animals had previously been in captivity before their rescue. In total five males, two females and a ...

Nunu Anugrah, Director of Species and Genetic Biodiversity Conservation at the Ministry of Forestry explained that after being rescued, these orangutans undergo rehabilitation at specialized centers. ...