The baby orangutan rescued from a Dombivli apartment last year by the forest department will soon be repatriated to Indonesia ...

BUKIT BAKA BUKIT RAYA, Indonesia (AP) — The world’s only known albino orangutan climbed trees, foraged for food and began building a nest after being released into a remote Borneo jungle more than a ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Forest fires and land clearing by palm oil firms could kill off within weeks about 200 orangutans in a forest in western Indonesia, an environmental group said on Wednesday. The ...

The huge primate looks mellow and relaxed on the operating table. A veterinary staff member of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme center conducts medical examinations on a 14-year-old male ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Two critically endangered orangutans have been rescued from captivity on Indonesia's Java island and sent to a rehabilitation centre on Borneo to assess whether they can be ...

Tapanuli orangutans are the world's most endangered great ape. Fewer than 800 remain, all previously thought to be in their native Indonesia. But now an Indian zoo says it has one. An Indian court ...

The Satwa Taru Jurug zoo in Indonesia announced that it is launching an intervention for Tori, a 15-year-old orangutan with a smoking problem. The great ape started the habit about 10 years ago by ...

An orangutan revealed his first aid knowledge! Rakus, a male wild orangutan in Indonesia, was seen chewing up a leaf and then applying its juice to a wound on his cheek. Within a month, the deep wound ...

An orangutan revealed his first aid knowledge! Rakus, a male wild orangutan in Indonesia, was seen chewing up a leaf and then applying its juice to a wound on his cheek. Within a month, the deep wound ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant – the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...