The baby orangutans were trying to stall before bedtime. One reached out to grab a particularly long leaf through the bars of its cage, encouraging a human to play, then employed a classic toddler ...

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 ...

This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you nine stories in the fields of nature and ...

The steamy, jungle-covered tropical island of Borneo was once considered one of the remotest, wildest places on earth. A place where orangutans and headhunters lurked undisturbed. Together with ...

Devastating forest fires have been burning through Indonesia since July Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, ...

Deforestation in Borneo will destroy the habitat of more than 26,000 orangutans, a quarter of the population of the critically endangered species, by 2032, a new study says. Researchers used ...

I look down to see two incredibly long arms reaching up and a young orang-utan pleading to be picked up. My tentative hands oblige. With arms around my neck, two beautiful black eyes peer quizzically ...

Conservationists in Borneo have rescued an orangutan that had been locked in a wooden crate for four years. The young female, named Senandung, had been living in a cage no larger than six foot six ...

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 ...

The critically endangered species gets a helping hand from an Indonesian facility as the island’s human population is about to explode Five-year-old Segi, rescued in 2021, learns how to climb at ...