Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse ...

Critically endangered species live life on a knife-edge. Often with populations in the low hundreds, every individual is ...

A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered ...

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

More than 900 people have died as a result of heavy rain, floods and landslides since Cyclone Senyar ravaged parts of ...

Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, ...

A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on ...

The tiny primate clutched his mother, eyes just barely open. Only five days old, the unnamed orangutan was the newest arrival to the Indianapolis Zoo community. His mother, Sirih, carried the newborn ...

Don't mess with this orangutan's cardboard. A visitor to the Omaha Zoo captured an orangutan's loud reaction when two siamangs tried to take his cardboard. The smaller apes also pulled on the ...

For Karin Konoval, the actress who plays the kindly Maurice in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, orangutans have become more than just subjects to study for a role. When Konoval goes to the zoo she sits ...

An orangutan has been seen treating a wound using a plant with known pain-relieving properties, marking the first known instance of a wild animal deliberately tending to its injuries with medicine.