Playing with peers is a crucial part of growing up—so crucial that orangutan mothers will go out of their way to arrange ...

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 ...

Five baby orangutans have been rescued from a forest in Odisha, thousands of kilometres from the only places where the animals naturally live, prompting authorities to investigate how the young apes ...

Blood tests have found severe anaemia in one and mild anaemia in two of five rescued baby orangutans at Odisha’s Nandankanan Zoological Park, as officials conducted health tests and collected samples ...