An orangutan named Suryia and a stray hound dog named Roscoe became best friends on a preserve in Myrtle Beach, Dr. Baghavan "Doc" Antle explains. An orangutan named Suryia and a stray hound dog named ...

This week on Humankind, inspiration came in many forms. Creatures featured heavily in our favorite stories. We saw an ape take a shine to a mom and her baby at the zoo, a squirrel tag along with a ...

For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.

In our Meet Milwaukee's Animals series, we speak to an animal caretaker each month to share the stats and stories that make some of our favorite animals so ...

Conservationists are calling for a district chief in Indonesia to face charges after he was found to have kept a baby Tapanuli orangutan as a pet and later released it into the wild unsupervised.

The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world. Amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar captured the ...

This article is brought to you by Audubon Nature Institute. Among the animals at Audubon Zoo, the orangutans are perhaps some of the most engaging when it comes to interacting with each other, ...