If you have no choice but to fight, look for a stick or any weapon. In hand-to-hand combat with a chimp, the man has everything to lose. Despite their height and physical power, orangutans are ...

"People here respect Dr. Biruté as the scientist who devoted her life to fighting to save the orangutans," says Herry Roustaman, a tour guide who heads the local boatmen's association. Galdikas ...

In the course of routine observations in Indonesia’s Suaq Balimbing area, researchers noticed that a male orangutan named ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — An animal keeper at a Seattle zoo was treated at a local hospital Saturday after being bitten by an orangutan. The Woodland Park Zoo said the keeper suffered a serious but non-life ...

But regardless of how much deforestation the expansion plan entails, any clearing of the native forest will be devastating for the survival of the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), Riezcy ...

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 ...

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 ...