Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to its own wounds. A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was observed by German and Indonesian scientists chewing up the leaves ...

The only great ape unique to Asia, orangutans are increasingly rare, with fewer than 50,000 in Borneo. Here, a male named Doyok moves through a reserve. Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers Darkness is fast ...

A team of vets working to capture a group of orangutans living along the banks of the Rungan River, are waylaid by the leader of the group—an aggressive male, named Kasper. The Art of Video ...

This story appears in the October/November 2016 issue of Nat Geo WILD magazine. Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of ...