Pet orangutans need to undergo rehabilitation to restore their natural behaviors and break their dependency on humans.

The unflanged male looks like an adult female. Both reproduce and an unflanged male can change to a flanged ... Their dense forest home makes it difficult to determine population sizes, but the ...

“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 ...

studied adult male orangutans from wild populations in Borneo and Sumatra. "Because of their unique life history, adult males ...

Vivy, a Bornean Orangutan, has made his way back to the rainforest after almost succumbing to malnourishment. As reported by People magazine, rescuers from the Orangutan Project, a non-profit ...

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

The Borneo orangutans – the man of the jungle in Malay ... This has hampered efforts on the ground, leading to the stalling of this project, all while the orangutans there are clinging on to survival ...

It said the birth had been "exciting news" for the zoo as Bornean orangutans were a critically ... enjoying time together" She said: "As a young male and a first-time father, we took the decision ...

Discovered in the ultramafic mountains in central Sabah, the species was named for the orangutan, due to its hairs’ striking resemblance to the great ape’s long, dark, rusty-red hair.