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, ...
Bornean orangutans are critically endangered and moms are generally only capable of giving birth once every three to five years. An Irish zoo enlisted 30 human mothers in hopes of teaching a Bornean ...
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 ...
"She’s extremely attentive and has spent the first few days holding her baby close." Experts thrilled after successful birth ...
Six and a half million acres. That’s the size of Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, one of the most ancient and biodiverse places ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognised the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, ...
The San Francisco Zoo announced Thursday it will say goodbye to its three remaining chimpanzees as it temporarily shutters ...