This week on Humankind, inspiration came in many forms. Creatures featured heavily in our favorite stories. We saw an ape take a shine to a mom and her baby at the zoo, a squirrel tag along with a ...

An orangutan named Suryia and a stray hound dog named Roscoe became best friends on a preserve in Myrtle Beach, Dr. Baghavan "Doc" Antle explains. An orangutan named Suryia and a stray hound dog named ...

An unlikely duo is attracting attention at a South Carolina wildlife reserve. Suryia the orangutan and Roscoe the Bluetick hound have become inseparable. And now the pals have released a picture book ...

When CaShawna Wright took her 1-year-old son Cruse on a play date with another mom friend of hers to the Los Angeles Zoo on Feb. 17, she didn’t expect she — and her son and his bottle — would end the ...

The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world. Amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar captured the ...

This week's Best Of includes an orangutan bonding with a baby, a toddler seeing for the first time, and animals golfing and getting degrees. For one toddler with leukemia, clinic days mean cuddles, ...