Jantho provided a sizable protected forest removed from some of the more immediate threats orangutans face elsewhere, giving ...

Orangutans share 97% of our DNA, use tools, and can plan for the future, yet all three species now teeter on the edge of ...

World Orangutan Day 2026 highlights the growing threats facing orangutans and why protecting their forests is critical to ...

Only 716 Tapanuli orangutans are estimated to remain. New research shows that forest loss, logging and extreme weather are pushing the world’s rarest great ape closer to extinction.

Orangutans are known for living more solitary lives than other great apes. Adult female orangutans usually travel through the ...

After completing rehabilitation at the BORA Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Bornean orangutans Ucockwati, 18, and Mungil, 8, were deemed eligible for release Shafiq Najib ...

Orphaned orangutans attend classes where they learn to crack open coconuts, avoid predators, climb trees and much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Seven years after being returned to the forests of northern Sumatra from a rehabilitation facility, a female orangutan ...

Orangutans saved from traffickers now confront a significant danger due to the unprecedented fires occurring in Indonesia ...

When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max ...

Orangutans in Sumatra could be the first great ape to go extinct. The red-furred, long-armed ape that shares 97% of the same DNA as humans are only found in the wild in Southeast Asia. As they're ...