“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 ...

National Geographic wildlife crime reporter Rachael Bale wrote about illegal fishing in the South China ... story was his award-winning feature on orangutan culture in December 2016.

OSHINE, known as the world's fattest orangutan, ballooned to an astonishing 15 stone while on a diet of jelly and marshmallows before her miraculous weight loss. The obese ape was kept as an ...

They might live in the trees, swinging from branch to branch, but orangutans are still some of the most human-like creatures you can find in the wild. We share over 96% of the same DNA.

One of the Toronto Zoo’s orangutans got up to some monkey business on Thursday when he briefly escaped his outdoor habitat. According to posts on its social media, the zoo was notified by a ...

But illegal farming, fishing and logging ... The fires also posed a grave threat to the island’s endangered orangutan population which lives in its peatland swamp forests.

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo officials said Monday they are expecting the arrival of its first orangutan baby in over three decades. Fourteen-year-old Sumatran orangutan Batu (bah-too ...

SEATTLE — For the first time in 35 years, an orangutan will be born at the Woodland Park Zoo. 14-year-old Batu is nearing the end of her pregnancy and is expected to give birth soon. Batu ...

In 2022, similar tensions, and a similar bow-and-arrow attack, led to one logger getting killed and another injured while ...

Some of the orangutans will hide under blankets, while some might play as usual, she said. Baby animals will feel safe next to their mothers. The owls and armadillos love the crates during storms ...

Orangutans watch the flurry of activity before allowing their keepers to move them to safety, while African elephants are herded gently to protected areas. Ms Tiffany Burns, director of animal ...