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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chantek was being treated for progressive heart disease, Zoo Atlanta said An orangutan who was one of the first apes to learn sign language has died in Atlanta, Georgia, aged 39. Chantek lived ...

Your support makes all the difference. A Dorset monkey sanctuary has taken in an infant orangutan which had become vulnerable after its mother had been unable to feed it. Sibu Junior was born on ...

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

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 ...

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