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 ...

A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on ...

An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the treetops of a rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia; a day later, they spotted ...

A shady orangutan proved that apes are perhaps even closer to us than some might think after hilariously donning sunglasses that a tourist dropped in its zoo paddock. A video of the primate’s ...

Biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia observed a large male orangutan self-medicating—using a paste of chewed up plants ...

There are two species of orangutan: Bornean (Pongo pygmaeus) and Sumatran (Pongo Abelli). Bornean and Sumatran orangutans differ slightly in appearance and behavior. Both species have drastically ...

A video of an orangutan grabbing a man through the bars of its cage has gone viral on Twitter. The orangutan held onto the man's leg in the video, appearing to try and put his foot in its mouth. The ...

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 case of an orangutan that died shortly after its capture by farmers in northern Sumatra has highlighted the persistent problem of human-wildlife conflict and possibly even the illegal wildlife ...