DENVER (KDVR) — An orangutan was able to escape from its exhibit after a “malfunction” at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance on Wednesday. The Denver Zoo confirmed with FOX31 that on Wednesday, ...

Tombak, the Zoo’s longtime male Sumatran orangutan, has died, according to the Memphis Zoo. He was 43 years old and lived ...

Memphis Zoo announced Wednesday the death of its longtime male Sumatran orangutan Tombak, who lived "well beyond" his life ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sedgwick County Zoo was placed on lockdown after an orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure. It happened around 10 a.m. Tuesday. The escape lasted around 10 minutes before ...

A newborn orangutan is receiving around-the-clock care at a Utah zoo after her mother didn’t show much interest in her, officials said. “There’s a new face in the Great Apes Building,” the Hogle Zoo ...

Jambi was born only a year ago to his parents, Tua and Sugi, at the Philadelphia Zoo. And now, the zoo is planning a birthday celebration for the baby orangutan. Jambi was the first successful birth ...

SEATTLE — An animal keeper at Woodland Park Zoo was seriously injured after being bitten by an orangutan during a routine training session over the weekend. The WPZ said the keeper was taken to the ...

For Karin Konoval, the actress who plays the kindly Maurice in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, orangutans have become more than just subjects to study for a role. When Konoval goes to the zoo she sits ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Animal caretakers are raising a baby orangutan that was recently born at Utah's Hogle Zoo. Bornean orangutan Kawan delivered her baby on June 21. Both the 24-year-old mother and ...

An orangutan that had been a resident of the Metro Richmond Zoo in Chesterfield County for almost 20 years has died, the zoo announced Monday. The orangutan, named JoJo, died from kidney failure ...