Orangutans do this a lot when they’re mad ... only one dominant flanged male maintains control over a local group of females. Many males in the area retain smaller bodies and don’t develop ...

In Malay, orangutan means “person of the forest”, but their numbers are dwindling. Only about 100,000 are left on the island of Borneo, down from more than 230,000 a century ago, according to ...

At the IAR rescue and rehabilitation centre in the area, staff were caring for those orangutans already suffering from the destruction of their forest home. A group of babies were brought back to ...

Yet Hadisiswoyo and his group do make progress. Since 2001, they’ve returned more than 2,500 acres of forest to habitat land. And that orangutan from the rickshaw? The police questioned the ...

Nora Murphy visited Mujur in April with her now 10-month old daughter Elodi A group of breastfeeding mothers have been enlisted by Dublin Zoo to try to help an orangutan bond with her newborn.