A male wild orangutan died after being electrocuted while hanging from an electric cable in the residential area of Palangka Raya ...

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

Knowing little about Borneo, rainforests or orangutans, I figured my best chance to meet orangutan minds was on shared ground. I was lucky. Shared ground existed in the form of centers that help ...

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists. It is the first time a creature in the wild has been ...

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

Look at those big, beautiful eyes! People online are cheering after a baby orangutan and 16 other wild animals were saved from a smuggling ring in Chumphon, Thailand. Things could've been so bad for ...

Look at those big, beautiful eyes! People online are cheering after a baby orangutan and 16 other wild animals were saved from a smuggling ring in Chumphon, Thailand. Things could've been so bad ...

Chahinkapa Zoo’s own Tal the orangutan, picked the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl LIX. Two footballs were placed on the ...