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

Tempted by the fruit of a strangler fig, a Bornean orangutan climbs 100 feet into the canopy. With males weighing as much as 200 pounds, orangutans are the world’s largest tree-dwelling animals.

Orangutans are the only great apes in Asia, making their homes on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in the Malay archipelago. Orangutans are arboreal, meaning they primarily live in the trees.

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 ...

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has officially welcomed its newest primate to the animal theme park's family. The Florida theme park announced the birth of a female orangutan on April 15 via social media ...

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 ...

A BRITISH charity has overseen the safe return of two critically endangered orangutans to their native Borneo, after they were taught how to live in the wild. A team from the Orangutan Conservation ...

School is still in session for groups of orphaned orangutans across Indonesia. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation runs several orangutan rehabilitation centers throughout the country that ...

Van Schaik and colleagues studied six different wild orangutan populations on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Southeastern Asia. While the socially transmitted behaviors were often similar ...

According to the zoo, orangutans are an endangered species native to rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra. Their natural habitats have been destroyed due to palm oil plantations and the illegal pet ...

A pair of Bornean orangutans at a Kent wildlife park are expecting a baby. Awan moved to Wingham Wildlife Park last year and soon gained the attention of one of the males, Jin. It's estimated she ...