Welcome to jungle school—where orphaned orangutans are learning the basics for survival that they will need for life in the wild. At the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) in Northern Sumatra, vets ...

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

Bangkok : Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, ...

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For the first time, scientists have published a detailed report of adoption in these great apes. Rossa, pictured here at nearly 14 years old, adopted her younger sister Ronnie when Rossa was just 12.6 ...

Jimmy dives to find a sea otter power disc. It's time for Jimmy to learn how to dive, something he's afraid to do. Chris and Coach, the sea otter, shows him how it's done. Aviva announces a plan for ...

WLKY NEWS. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 28 YEARS, THE LOUISVILLE ZOO IS WELCOMING TWO NEW ORANGUTANS, SAM AND KYRA ARE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, AND THEY CAME TO LOUISVILLE FROM THE CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO. THE ...

Only scientifically classified as a species in 2017, tapanulis are incredibly rare, with fewer than 800 left in the wild, confined to a small range in part of Indonesia's Sumatra. One dead suspected ...

Indonesia’s deadliest floods in decades have pushed the world’s rarest great ape closer to extinction, as scientists warn that vast swathes of forest critical to the survival of the Tapanuli orangutan ...

Before the deadly landslides and floods hit Indonesia about two weeks ago, Amran Siagian, 39, frequently met Tapanuli orangutans on a hill in the region of Sipirok, North Sumatra province. Siagian, ...