The 18-month-old primate had "wounds on his head and fingers from rocking and banging his head on the cage," according to his rescuers A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to ...

Like a human newborn, orangutan babies are totally dependent on their mothers. The infant can hardly lift his own head. After gathering an impressive fistful of popcorn, Sirih retires to a spot ...

The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a male baby orangutan to its Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. This makes it 12 official primates that live at the zoo. The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on ...

“Our team immediately answered the report and evacuated the orangutan,” said Matheas Ari Wibawanto, the head of East Kalimantan Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), on ...

All three species of orangutan are considered critically endangered, though estimates of the number left in the wild vary considerably. Mr Ari Wibawanto, head of the local conservation agency ...