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 ...

The Audubon Zoo orangutans have made their pick for the 91st Allstate Sugar Bowl. Kickoff parade for 91st annual Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans As fans of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and ...

Ten years ago, I set off for Borneo to study orangutans. I knew how closely related they were to humans, but when I actually experienced the orangutans first hand, I found the similarities ...

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

Orangutans do this a lot when they’re mad ... Obviously Prabu had been in a fight, but was he the winner or the loser? As I watch, he rises up and gives the loud series of sounds known as ...

Researchers believe that Rakus most likely sustained the wound in a fight with another male orangutan, which are rare in the area thanks to “high food availability, high social tolerance between ...

Vandu and Raba are two Bornean Orangutans that have spent most of their lives in captivity at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a glaring juxtaposition from the their relatives in ...

An Incredible Discovery However, it’s not all bad news. The discovery of a new orangutan population in Sarawek, Malaysian Borneo was cause for excitement among conservationists. Led by the ...

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 ...

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.

Kiwi is a one-year-old orangutan with a fantastic head of spikey hair who has just begun a new life in the UK. The primate was born in a conservation centre in Spain. But after being rejected by ...