On Sunday morning, the zoo's 52-year-old orangutan, Cheyenne, died unexpectedly. Zoo officials said after Cheyenne suddenly ...

After learning how to survive independently in the jungle, she has been allowed to return to her home in the Busang Ecosystem ...

The “people of the forest” won’t live in the wild much longer if we keep chopping down their rainforest homes.

The talk show host delivered his signature line while revealing the paternity results for a 4-month-old Sumatran orangutan named Siska When the Denver Zoo was ready to announce the paternity of a ...

In certain circumstances, graduation can be accelerated if the orangutan grows too big or too old. When the orphans are rescued later in life, the period of time during which it is safe for humans ...

He remembers coming across Hope, a Sumatran orangutan who had been shot with 74 pellets. She was blinded, and she had a baby who was a few months old at most. The rescue team drove 12 hours to go ...

Orangutan Sirih shows her new baby boy at Indianapolis Zoo’s Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. His sister Mila and dad Basan swing nearby.

The tiny primate clutched his mother, eyes just barely open. Only five days old, the unnamed orangutan was the newest arrival to the Indianapolis Zoo community. His mother, Sirih, carried the ...

A rare orangutan is named after a mascot for a group which helps children after intestinal failure. Dublin Zoo's 19-year-old orangutan, Mujur, gave birth to a healthy male baby at the end of July.

The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 to Basan and Sirih, also the parents of Mila an 8-year-old female orangutan also born at the zoo. In 2003, Sirih gave birth to another female named Jahe ...