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 ...

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 ...

Fourteen years later, she's living a happy, healthy life.

“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 ...

Are you able to answer questions about where orangutans live, their habitat, how long orangutans look after their babies for, and what makes orangutans similar to humans?Show off how much you know ...

WWF Malaysia has led a project in Borneo to stop the loss of orangutan habitat, whilst helping the wellbeing of the communities that live there too. Batang Ai National Park is one of the oldest Iban ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the Toronto Zoo’s orangutans got up to some monkey business on Thursday when he briefly escaped his outdoor habitat. According to posts on its social media, the zoo was notified by a ...

The pointing orangutan meme is a TikTok trend around an orangutan named Amber, who likes to point at objects to make humans interact with them. The behavior has encouraged people in the area near ...

But my most memorable bonding moments are always with orangutans. It probably stands to reason. Orangutans are among the most intelligent of all primates. Their name actually means “forest ...

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.