The 18-month-old primate had "wounds on his head and fingers from rocking and banging his head on the cage," according to his rescuers A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to ...

Once we have rescued the orphaned orangutans ... how to climb. Once a baby orangutan can confidently move through the trees, they go on to learn general skills, such as nest building, how to ...

Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans can be captured only by killing their protective mothers. These orphans are being raised at International Animal Rescue.

Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard present a series featuring orphaned and rescued orangutans in Borneo. Steve tries to rescue a baby orangutan being illegally held in a village. Show more ...

Rajang the orangutan offered a few sweet kisses through the glass to a pregnant woman and her growing baby Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

An Indonesian rehabilitation in Borneo has released 10 orangutans into the wild. The endangered animals had previously been in captivity before their rescue. In total five males, two females and a ...

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 ...

He remembers coming across Hope, a Sumatran orangutan who had been shot with 74 pellets. She was blinded, and she had a baby who was a few months old at most. The rescue team drove 12 hours to go ...

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