A video showing an orangutan mom lovingly caring for her 3-month-old baby has melted hearts online. O post Video of Orangutan ...

Zoe had been watching videos of other orangutan mothers caring for their young for months leading up to that moment. Zoe's caretaker also taught her how to carry her baby by demonstrating with a ...

Kayla Jaylen Natsis/storyful The baby's mother told USA Today that the orangutan shared another beautiful moment with the child when she kissed the glass twice when the child was brought nearby.

Our animal friends can be amusing. The annual wildlife photo competition celebrates the silly side of the animal kingdom.

In the wild, a child can stay with their mother for over 8 years, during which they learn countless lessons on foraging, climbing, and jungle survival. Orangutans have the longest interbirth ...

“People said I was crazy.” Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans can be captured only by killing their protective mothers. These orphans are being raised at ...

The infant remains with its mother for eight or nine years. Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers Orangutans of the Tanjung Puting National Park procreate about once every eight years. Petra, a 12-month-old ...

An extremely rare albino Orangutan has been found in Indonesia. Conservationists rescued her on Borneo Island, and It is the first albino orangutan encountered by the foundation in its 25 years of ...

But the only way to get an orangutan infant is to kill its mother, then take the baby off her dead or dying body. So all captive infants are orphans. For orangutans, that alone is tragic because ...