Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orangutan Getty Images/Manoj Shah In the lush rainforests of Southeast Asia, a remarkable creature swings through the treetops, ...

If we’ve learned anything from Mowgli, it’s that growing up in the rainforest is brutally difficult. The same applies to orangutans, except their mothers can’t hire a bear and a panther to help.

The population of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) has now dropped to around 11,694 individuals, a 19.5 percent decrease ...

After completing rehabilitation at the BORA Rescue & Rehabilitation Centre in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Bornean orangutans Ucockwati, 18, and Mungil, 8, were deemed eligible for release Shafiq Najib ...

Orphaned orangutans attend classes where they learn to crack open coconuts, avoid predators, climb trees and much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Bornean orangutans do not just eat fruits and leaves. After twenty years of observations, researchers have discovered that they also consume plants with medicinal properties, even though these ...

By observing orangutans for long durations over many years, the research group managed to show that young orangutans peered at (deliberately watched) their mothers making nests to learn how to do it.

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max ...

Deadly floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in 2025 wiped out at least seven per cent of the critically ...

Oklahoma City's two Sumatran orangutans will be leaving soon after the pair failed to mate. Elok and Negara, the male and female orangutans at the Oklahoma City Zoo's Great EscApe habitat, will be ...

Editor's Note: The original version of this story misstated the journal that Lameira's team's findings were published in; they were published in Nature Ecology ...

In the lush rainforests of Southeast Asia, a remarkable creature swings through the treetops, capturing our hearts with its intelligence, charisma and distinct red-orange fur — the orangutan. But ...