An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...

After learning how to survive independently in the jungle, she has been allowed to return to her home in the Busang Ecosystem ...

These are tough times for the orangutan. Not only does the tree-dwelling primate live on just two islands in south east Asia, they are also in line for extinction in the wild if the destruction of ...

A zookeeper described the 43-year-old orangutan who has lived at the zoo his whole life as an intelligent, thoughtful ...

Galdikas had been told by professors and peers that it would be impossible to study wild orangutans because they were elusive and lived almost exclusively in habitats that were swampy and remote ...

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

However, a few zoos have come up with ways to broaden their animals' horizons, and the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington ...