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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 ...

Wild orangutans adapt their diet to food availability to maintain overall health balance. A wild orangutan. CREDIT/Ilya Raskin·Rutgers University A new study has confirmed that orangutans in tropical ...

A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on ...

Rufus, a 36-year-old male Bornean orangutan who lived at the Kansas City Zoo for more than two decades, died Saturday due to a chronic heart condition.Rufus was born in 1988 at Utah's Hogle Zoo and ...

Despite years of research into their complex behavior and intelligence, orangutans remain critically endangered on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, where they’re endemic. Mongabay has extensively ...

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It’s snack time at the orangutan jungle school in Nyaru Menteng. But one lovable male, Beni, is on a very strict diet. Undeterred, he’ll try every trick in the book to get past his keepers. From the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Little Rock Zoo has announced that the youngest male orangutan at the zoo has sadly passed away. According to staff, Kota the orangutan was born at the zoo on February 23, 2024 ...