The great apes have a great diet.Vogel said that while orangutans reduce physical activity during low fruit periods to conserve energy, humans - especially those with couch potato lifestyles - may not ...

Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, ...

One sunny afternoon in San Diego, three-year-old Aisha played outside while her father sat nearby. Her father wasn’t paying much attention to her, so Aisha took a toy and waved it at him. When he didn ...

People could learn from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a healthy diet, say scientists. They found that, be it feast or famine, the primates adapt through “flexible” eating patterns. The ...

Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels ...

At first glance, a video of an orangutan imitating a trainer’s grunts may not seem incredibly significant. But primate researchers say Rocky, the 11-year-old orangutan in the video, could ...

For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. Mujur, a ...

More than 900 people have died as a result of heavy rain, floods and landslides since Cyclone Senyar ravaged parts of ...

A Tapanuli orangutan, the world’s rarest great ape, has been discovered dead in mud and log debris in a village in northern Sumatra — a grim sign of how severely recent floods and landslides may have ...

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