American photographer Tim Laman won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition on Oct. 18, 2016. Laman, who was selected from 50,000 entries across 95 countries, told the story of the ...

An orangutan surrogacy program is giving the most vulnerable babies in Borneo something they thought they had lost forever: a ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – One of the favorite stops for many visitors to the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is the Orangutan exhibit. Four of the great apes call Fort Wayne home and they’re great ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a lifelong animal lover and zoo enthusiast, I’ve had some incredible interactions with the residents of different facilities.

A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to recovery” after he was kept in a “tiny cage" amid “unthinkable” conditions for six months. In an Instagram post on Jan. 8, The Orangutan ...

Keepers are celebrating the birth of a critically endangered orangutan at a UK zoo - hailing it a 'milestone step' towards saving the species from extinction. The tiny Bornean orangutan was delivered ...

Jambi was born only a year ago to his parents, Tua and Sugi, at the Philadelphia Zoo. And now, the zoo is planning a birthday celebration for the baby orangutan. Jambi was the first successful birth ...

Little Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque living in the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has captured hearts on the ...

When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of how to acquire and process them. A ...