“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

"Oh, there's Kusasi!" Galdikas says, greeting a large orangutan with soulful brown eyes as he emerges from the luxuriant rain forest surrounding the camp. Kusasi stomps onto the porch, reaches ...

Cute Video: Orangutan Mom Uses Leaves as Umbrella to Protect Baby in the Rain (Instagram @paulrosolie) As the rain falls, the orangutan carefully gathers large leaves around her, skillfully using ...

Visitors will be unable to see a much-loved group of animals for six weeks while their enclosure is repaired at Colchester Zoo in north Essex.