ORANGUTAN mothers are forced to arrange playdates for their infants, a new study has revealed. Growing up in the jungle is ...

If we’ve learned anything from Mowgli, it’s that growing up in the rainforest is brutally difficult. The same applies to orangutans, except their mothers can’t hire a bear and a panther to help.

In a revealing display of assertiveness, an orangutan at the zoo captivates onlookers as it points insistently at a wagon ...

"Tiny Sibu Jr. entered the world completely alone." ...

Baby Sumatran orangutan named Jambi makes public debut at Philadelphia Zoo 00:30 A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a human-made canopy bridge to cross a public road on the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Alba, the world's only known albino orangutan, now has her own personal ...

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises—but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story. Those ...

The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, recently welcomed its first baby orangutan in 20 years The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, captured a critically-endangered Bornean orangutan birth on camera.

The population of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) has now dropped to around 11,694 individuals, a 19.5 percent decrease ...

An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could hold the key to understanding how speech evolved in early humans. Rocky, who was eight at the time of the study, was able to copy the pitch and tone of vowel ...