Secret Lives of Orangutans hits you with the fast facts you crave and lots of up-close camera work to reveal the habits of its endangered subjects.

But Otto has competition from other flanged males, in particular Titan and Raku, and over a period of months Secret Lives of Orangutans tracks the progression of their dominance rituals.

A significant portion of orangutan habitat in Indonesia lies within corporate concessions, but industrial tree companies, like pulp and paper, don’t have strong enough safeguards and commitment ...

Vartan: To pick up on these treetop conversations, Wendy and her colleagues track the orangutans while wearing a peculiar-looking backpack that has a big mic sticking out of it.

A daring orangutan cartwheeled, tight-rope-walked and trapezed its way out of an enclosure at the Toronto Zoo this week, officials said. Kembali — one of the zoo’s seven Sumatran orangutans ...

An orangutan named Kembali escaped his enclosure at the the Toronto Zoo on Aug. 29 after swinging in 'cartwheel-like motions.' Luckily, he was returned to his habitat without incident.