Look at those big, beautiful eyes! People online are cheering after a baby orangutan and 16 other wild animals were saved from a smuggling ring in Chumphon, Thailand. Things could've been so bad for ...

“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 ...

The Orangutan Project A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to recovery” after he was kept in a “tiny cage" amid “unthinkable” conditions for six months. In an Instagram ...

For the last decade, a team of frontline medics has been fighting to save Borneo's critically endangered orangutans. Armed with cameras, International Animal Rescue has documented their struggle ...

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.

Whether it’s chimpanzees in Uganda chewing bitter plants or Rakus, the Sumatran orangutan who carefully ... audacious approach to wellness: the red-fronted lemurs of Madagascar.

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

Orangutans are bought online for as little as $109. When they outgrow their homes, they can be confined to cages. Image taken by Alejo Sabugo I’m a scientist and I’d like to think a good one ...