Watch and listen as BOSF explains how the learning process works and as the babies try out their new skills. Valentino, who’s ...

Three critically endangered orangutans have been successfully released into a national park in Borneo, Indonesia, after they ...

Christmas came early at the Memphis Zoo with the much-anticipated arrival of an orangutan baby, a girl named Ruhana ...

The tiny infant was delivered to proud mum Jahe in December, with an expert medical team drafted in to Memphis Zoo to perform ...

Orangutans learn from their family how to do everything, like build nests, use tools, and behave oneself within the social ...

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 ...

Having a new baby orangutan at the Memphis Zoo is good news for the species, the world and the city — and it’s unbelievably ...

When we humans don't get enough rest at night, the next day we feel the strong urge to take a nap. It turns out that orangutans are no different. "If an orangutan does not get enough sleep, it does ...

Humans like to discover. Presented with something we've never seen before, most of us will be compelled to explore and learn more about it. The same can't exactly be said for our closest living ...

Meriter, UW Health and Henry Vilas Zoo have teamed up to vaccinate a 3-year-old orangutan named Menjadi against the flu.

New research from The University of Warwick has revealed that orangutans, the most arboreal of the great apes, produce consonant-like calls more often and of greater variety than their African ...