Why so long? The little guy is the zoo’s first new orangutan in 15 years. These apes have the longest intervals between ...

The Los Angeles Zoo has welcomed a new primate baby, the first of its kind at the zoo in nearly 15 years. The zoo announced ...

A zoo in the UK has welcomed the arrival of a critically endangered Bornean orangutan. Born in the early hours of October 7, ...

For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. Mujur, a ...

Bornean orangutans are critically endangered and moms are generally only capable of giving birth once every three to five years. An Irish zoo enlisted 30 human mothers in hopes of teaching a Bornean ...

New research based on more than a decade of field observations indicates that wild Sumatran orangutans balance their sleep needs much like humans do, by napping during the day. The team found the ...

The Dublin Zoo’s orangutan, named Mujur, gave birth to a baby male last month. LONDON -- The Dublin Zoo has enlisted a group of new mothers to help its orangutan, Mujur, learn how to feed her newborn ...

KHQ.COM - Orangutans may be more closely related to humans than scientists previously thought, a new genetic study has shown. The first blueprint of the orangutan genetic code has confirmed that they ...

Dartmouth and University of St Andrews researchers propose "scrumping" as a new word to describe the fondness African apes have for eating fermented fruit from the ground. Recent research suggests the ...

In groundbreaking work from The University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognised the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, ...