Since it was first described by scientists in 2017, the Tapanuli orangutan, one of the world’s rarest great apes, was ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium unveiled plans for its next big project. The zoo is getting ready to transform its orangutan habitat into the Hubbard Orangutan Forest. Zoo ...

The Kansas City Zoo didn’t have the best track record when it came to penning-in its primates—two gorillas got out in 2012 and two chimpanzees ran away in 2014 (I assume they all were brought back?).

BANDUNG, Indonesia -- Conservationists are demanding action after an orangutan was caught on camera smoking a cigarette thrown into its habitat at an Indonesian zoo, the latest in a string of ...

The effort to reimagine the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's former RainForest attraction has reached a milestone. The final beam ...

Indonesian Pulpwood producer PT Mayawana Persada is continuing to clear peatlands on critical Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) habitat, despite a government order to stop clearing. An NGO coalition ...

The zoo announced Monday that they named the baby girl “Clementine.” Clementine's name was selected by the Congo Expedition team by majority vote within the department. The zoo said the keepers came ...

An orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday evening, and the zoo is now asking anyone who might have video of the caper to come forward. The zoo said a volunteer alerted ...

A critically endangered Bornean orangutan has been shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, police and activists said Thursday. Police ...

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