The Bornean Orangutan is native to where it gets its name from Borneo in Southeast Asia. It is one of three of its kind, with ...

A Sumatran orangutan was seen using a medicinal plant to heal a facial wound at an Indonesian research site in a first step for non-humankind. The male primate applied a paste made from the ...

The expressive, heart-melting faces of baby orangutans make them highly valuable in the black-market pet trade, within Indonesia as well as smuggled out of Borneo or Sumatra to foreign destinations.

Mission Critical explored the challenges that orangutans face in the wild, and the obstacles that scientists, photographers, and explorers face when documenting them in the thick rain forest of ...

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated ... After researchers saw Rakus applying the plant poultice to his face, the wound closed up and healed in a month. Scientists say the ...