Biruté Galdikas was the third of the so-called Trimates, alongside Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. She spent thousands of hours in the jungles of Borneo for the first long-term study of orangutans. Her ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

The 18-month-old primate had "wounds on his head and fingers from rocking and banging his head on the cage," according to his rescuers Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her ...

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 ...

Why protecting wild orangutan habitat in Borneo is critically urgent now ...

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 ...