Wild orangutans use multi-layered recursive vocal patterns that vary with danger, challenging the idea that only humans use ...

While orangutans and humans share about 97 percent of their DNA, chimpanzees and bonobos are more closely related to our species. Since orangutans still exhibit this robust vocal repertoire ...

Orangutan communication sheds light on human speech origins. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 12 / 221220112426.htm ...

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random ...

It’s the physical traits, rather than the strictly genetic ones, that researchers say link orangutans so closely to humans. One of those traits: “Humans and orangutans actually have a hairline ...

The study suggests that these vocal abilities in orangutans may have existed in ancient, extinct relatives of humans and could have influenced the development of human speech. The vocal control ...

Scientists have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity. This is a form of communication previously thought to be unique to humans, suggesting a much older evolutionary origin.

Orangutans have the longest period of dependence on the mother of any land-dwelling animal, including humans, according to the Smithsonian National Zoo. Newborn orangutans are completely dependent ...

“She doesn’t see tiny humans up close much, so I think she was curious to see Caleb,” Turner said. “She was so observant, and [orangutans] are so humanlike. She was looking me in the eye ...

Orangutan’s are generally nonaggressive towards humans, however, they are considered to be five to seven times stronger than humans, India Times reported. “Google people who have been attacked ...

The orangutan, named Zoe, relied on humans to learn maternal instincts. An orangutan at a Virginia zoo relied on a fellow mother, a human, to teach her how to breastfeed. The orangutan ...

“Wild orangutans, however, use consonant-like calls universally and consistently across different populations and for multiple behaviours, much like humans do with speech. Their vocal repertoire ...