Visiting the orang-utans at the zoo brings us face to face with some of our closest relatives. Moments of connection with these intelligent creatures can be powerfully emotional. We heard recently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bornean orang utan baby can be seen clinging onto Miri, its mother, as she swings and climbs around the orang utan enclosure ...

Deadly floods and landslides in Sumatra last year have wiped out at least 7% of the total population of the critically endangered Tapanuli orang utan, a new report showed.

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Reintroduction of a genetically distinct subspecies has led to hybridization in an endangered wild orangutan population, report scientists. Inter-breeding animals from two genetically distinct ...

Researchers in the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo are joyful after receiving confirmation that a young male orangutan used a rope bridge to cross a river, which has separated one orangutan ...

In 2004 and 2012, scientists recorded rare encounters between two very different primates: southern Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) and Philippine slow loris (Nycticebus menagensis). But ...

Punch, an abandoned Japanese baby macaque, has sought comfort in his stuffed orang utan from Ikea, which is currently sold out in Singapore. - Reuters/ Ikea Singapore SINGAPORE: Move over, Moo Deng, ...

Reanalysis of landmark paper finds that eight genome sequences were mistakenly assigned to the wrong orangutans. The impacts on research are as-yet unclear. Susie the Sumatran orangutan was a genetic ...

SINGAPORE – Move over, Moo Deng, because 2026 looks to be the year of Japanese baby macaque Punch and his stuffed orang utan from Ikea. The seven-month-old male monkey – who was abandoned by his ...