These orphans are being raised at International Animal Rescue. Knott’s studies have special significance because female orangutans give birth only every six to nine years. No other mammal has a ...

Bornean orangutan Kiwi, who is nearly one year old, was rejected by her mother shortly after she was born at Rio Safari Elche in Alicante. This, and failed attempts for another female orangutan to ...

Mirror Blackpool, England: A bunged-up female orangutan can breathe easy after undergoing the UK's first sinus operation on the animal. Vicky, a 29-year-old Bornean orangutan, had the two-hour ...

Scientists determined that if even one percent of the female Sumatran orangutan are killed every year due to hunting or other man-made issues, it could completely change the trajectory of the ...

A court of appeals granted a writ of habeas corpus to 29-year-old Sandra, a female orangutan in the Buenos Aires zoo in an unprecedented ruling worldwide, according to which the ape was recognized ...

Primate staff at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute’s (NZCBI) campus in Washington, D.C., are mourning the loss of Kyle, a 28-year-old male Bornean orangutan who died ...

Three female orangutans, including a baby, were burnt to death in central Indonesia after being caught in a fire believed to have been started illegally to clear land for farming, an official and ...