On Sunday morning, the zoo's 52-year-old orangutan, Cheyenne, died unexpectedly. Zoo officials said after Cheyenne suddenly became ill, she underwent an emergency veterinary examination.

One resident of the Birmingham Zoo is getting a new lease on life. A 41-year-old orangutan named Oliver is recovering at the zoo in Birmingham, Alabama, after having surgery to remove a testicular ...

What should his name be? This baby orangutan was expected next month, but he came a little earlier than expected at the ...

HOUSTON — The Houston Zoo is mourning the loss of one of its most cherished residents, Cheyenne, a 52-year-old orangutan who died unexpectedly on Sunday morning. Zoo officials said Cheyenne ...

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.

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.

All three species of orangutan are increasingly losing their wild habitat to violent deforestation. The growing palm oil industry is particularly culpable. But Sirih, 32 years old, and her baby, about ...

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 ...