The Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) once roamed across many countries in Southeast Asia. Around 2,000 years ago, they were ...

Orangutans can live around 35-40 years in the wild, while the oldest orangutan to live in captivity died at age 62, according ...

Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of our DNA. Orangutans are the only great apes in Asia, making their homes on ...

“It had a mystique that was larger than life,” said my father, who read about all these animals when he was a child growing up in India. Until a few decades ago, Borneo was covered in tropical ...

The elephants are native to the island of Borneo, where their population has ... is creating the perfect storm for the newly classified animals, whose very survival hangs in the balance.

In Borneo, by contrast ... Researchers see more than just animals’ behavior when they watch orangutans. After all, these scientists (and you and I) took only a slightly divergent route on ...

Limnonectes nusantara was named after Nusantara, the “proposed new capital of Indonesia,” according to the study. The local ...

Indonesia's rich biodiversity hosts fascinating and unique animals like Komodo Dragons, Sumatran Orangutans, Pygmy Tarsiers, Javan Rhinos, Borneo Elephants, Sulawesi Black Macaques, and Sumatran ...

MR. WALLACE, in his work on the “Geographical Distribution of Animals,” has the remark that no volcano, active or extinct, is known to exist within the area of the island of Borneo ...

Many of Borneo’s languages are endemic ... For example, there is emphasis on not wasting animals or forest products by collecting more than needed or harvesting them in ways that would hamper their ...