Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools ...

For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.

SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4) — Weila, Utah Hogle Zoo’s youngest Bornean orangutan, is six months old and doing well, according to the zoo. According to Utah Hogle Zoo, their youngest Bornean orangutan, ...

As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue to surprise science with their knowledge. A new research paper published in ...

Scientists have documented a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. Reading time 3 minutes Humans aren’t the only primates with a ...

Reeling from a cyclone that may have erased a chunk of its population, the Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape ...

An orangutan in a protected Indonesian rainforest site who sustained a facial wound treated the injury himself, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports earlier this month. The ...

Welcome to jungle school—where orphaned orangutans are learning the basics for survival that they will need for life in the ...

A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered ...

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ST. LOUIS — The name of the newest primate of the Saint Louis Zoo pays homage to one of the zoo's partners. Forest, the three-and-a-half-week-old baby Sumatran orangutan, was named after the zoo's ...

Journalists often must write depressing stories. But thankfully that’s not always the case. In fact, when the job has its perks, it really has its perks. Like when two of us, both devoted followers of ...