World Orangutan Day 2025 highlights urgent conservation needs as new research shows orangutans share human-like behaviors.

By Kristine Sabillo Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically ...

Menu influencer Orangutan and human teenagers are more similar than we thought by Jennifer Walter May 19, 2021 BBC America via Giphy ...

Researchers raised him like a human child and taught him at least 150 words in American Sign Language. He was taught other human skills such as using a bathroom and cleaning his room.

Researchers raised him like a human child and taught him at least 150 words in American Sign Language. He was taught other human skills, such as using a bathroom and cleaning his room.

Female orangutans, generally, take care of their offspring for, at least, the first two years of their lives. Infants are completely dependent on their mothers for food and transportation for the ...

Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Scientists have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity.

But Rocky went further by showing he could learn new sounds, pair consonants with vowels, and match the pitch of a human's voice. Together, Rocky and Tilda make the case that orangutans can manipulate ...

Audubon Zoo’s newborn male orangutan is receiving around-the-clock care by the zoo’s veterinary and primate care staff under consultation from specialists from Children’s Hospital New Orleans.

As President of Orangutan Foundation International, Dr Biruté Galdikas has studied orangutans longer than any other person in human history; she has worked ceaselessly to protect orangutans and ...

An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognised the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, local media reported.