The baby orangutans were trying to stall before bedtime. One reached out to grab a particularly long leaf through the bars of its cage, encouraging a human to play, then employed a classic toddler ...

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 post on Jan. 8, The Orangutan ...

A Utah zoo is caring for a newborn orangutan after her mom didn’t care for her appropriately, officials said. Hogle Zoo A newborn orangutan is receiving around-the-clock care at a Utah zoo after her ...

Weila, the baby Bornean orangutan at Utah's Hogle Zoo, finally made her public debut. Visitors to the zoo can now catch a ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Clinging shyly to his mother, six-week-old Jambi made his public debut Wednesday ...

For the first time in 15 years, the Philadelphia Zoo welcomed the birth of a Sumatran orangutan. The critically endangered species is part of a breeding program among zoos intended to ensure the ...

The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a male baby orangutan to its Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. This makes it 12 official primates that live at the zoo. The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on Feb.

"IT’S A BOY! Orangutan mom Sirih gave birth to a healthy male baby this afternoon," the zoo said in a social media post. The post said the baby and mom were "doing great" and that the zoo's animal ...

Sirih ventured into the atrium for the first time in five days, glancing over the crowd of onlookers clustered behind the glass. They couldn’t seem to peel their attention off her and the small, alien ...

A newborn orangutan is receiving around-the-clock care at a Utah zoo after her mother didn’t show much interest in her, officials said. “There’s a new face in the Great Apes Building,” the Hogle Zoo ...