Sandra covers her head with a cloth to protect herself from the public gaze at Buenos Aires Zoo (file photo) An orangutan which spent 20 years in an Argentine zoo is being moved to a US animal ...

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 ...

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

The behavior of orangutans in their new environment is recorded every 2 minutes, from waking up to sleeping every day.

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 ...

There's some good news about the survival rates of orangutans in protected forests on the Malaysian island of Borneo. Numbers have stabilised over the last 15 years, according to a new study by ...

The search is on for 43 missing monkeys in Yemassee after they escaped their enclosure at the Alpha Genisis research center, ...

When infants are targeted, the traffickers usually kill their mothers so the trade represents a real threat to wild orang-utan populations. In addition, orang-utans are hunted in some areas for food ...

Your support makes all the difference. A Dorset monkey sanctuary has taken in an infant orangutan which had become vulnerable after its mother had been unable to feed it. Sibu Junior was born on ...

Last month, Katelyn Ansari decided to ditch the dating apps and instead stopped by her local Home Depot to shop for a man.

Like Starbucks says in their own words at the top of their menu, "the cheer is here!" and so many beloved holiday favorites ...