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 ...

Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, ...

The great apes have a great diet.Vogel said that while orangutans reduce physical activity during low fruit periods to conserve energy, humans - especially those with couch potato lifestyles - may not ...

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.

For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. Mujur, a ...

KHQ.COM - Orangutans may be more closely related to humans than scientists previously thought, a new genetic study has shown. The first blueprint of the orangutan genetic code has confirmed that they ...

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

An orangutan has been seen applying the leaves of a plant commonly used in traditional medicine to a cut on its face, seemingly to hasten healing. It is the first case in the scientific record of a ...

Playing a “do-as-I-do” game with "wookies": An orangutan and a human I'm always looking for interesting and novel research on nonhuman animal (animal) cognition to share with readers, and a recent ...