As a result, orangutans long remained among the least known of Earth’s large land animals. Only during the past 20 years or so has scientific evidence begun to outweigh speculation as a new ...

What should his name be? This baby orangutan was expected next month, but he came a little earlier than expected at the ...

The Orangutan Project A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to recovery” after he was kept in a “tiny cage" amid “unthinkable” conditions for six months. In an Instagram ...

"The future of Bornean Orangutans will very much depend on the long-term security of large, strictly-protected forests where illegal logging and hunting will be efficiently controlled and the ...

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Nestled in the crook of Sirih’s arm was an infant orangutan — a boy, a nameless clump of auburn hair born less than a week before on Feb. 20. He’s the first baby orangutan born at the Indianapolis Zoo ...

Orangutan mom Sirih gave birth to a healthy ... "We introduced them to his dad and his big sister, and those are the two who are out with him today, over the past few days and it just went amazing ...

Suffice to say, humans pose the greatest threat to orangutans’ survival. Orangutans are large apes that have been around for generations and are divided into three species – Borneo (Pongo ...