There are estimated to be fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans left in the wild, living in a small patch of forest in North ...

MEDAN: For the first time, scientists have confirmed the presence of the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo ...

Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world’s rarest great apes, was ...

Investigations by the NGOs Earthsight, Auriga Nusantara and Mighty Earth have found that plywood from forests cleared in Indonesian Borneo — including critical orangutan habitat — is ending up in U.S.

The Kansas City Zoo didn’t have the best track record when it came to penning-in its primates—two gorillas got out in 2012 and two chimpanzees ran away in 2014 (I assume they all were brought back?).

BANDUNG, Indonesia -- Conservationists are demanding action after an orangutan was caught on camera smoking a cigarette thrown into its habitat at an Indonesian zoo, the latest in a string of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo has some exciting news: one of its orangutans is expecting. In a social media post Wednesday morning, Henry Doorly shared that a 26-year-old Bornean ...

An orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday evening, and the zoo is now asking anyone who might have video of the caper to come forward. The zoo said a volunteer alerted ...

A research team from the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) recently identified several Tapanuli orangutans in a peat forest ...

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium on Wednesday announced that Ruby — a 26-year-old female Bornean orangutan — is ...

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