Those noises are the calls of Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii), used to warn others about the presence of predators. Orangutans belong to our animal family—we're both great apes. That means we ...

Sumatran orangutan mothers differ in the extent and trajectory of their expression of maternal behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2025; 292 (2046) DOI: 10.1098 ...

An orangutan named Rakus was treated for a face wound with medicinal plants, undergoing the process multiple times over a span of 2 months, leading to a barely visible scar. Great apes are truly ...

An orangutan (not the one pictured) has been deemed safe after biting a zoo worker in Seattle. Chris Tellez via Unsplash An orangutan bit a zookeeper’s hand through a mesh barrier, causing a ...

The Orangutan Project A baby orangutan has been rescued and is “on the road to recovery” after he was kept in a “tiny cage" amid “unthinkable” conditions for six months. In an Instagram ...

There is much that is unknown about this meme, including what the orangutan did to get him on a government hit list and why somebody decided to make this meme at all, but that’s Facebook for you.

The pointing orangutan meme is a TikTok trend around an orangutan named Amber, who likes to point at objects to make humans interact with them. The behavior has encouraged people in the area near ...

This self-medication might seem trivial, but Rakus is not a lost hiker in the jungle. He is an orangutan. This great ape was observed in June 2022 by a team of researchers in the Sumatran jungle ...

At six months old, human infants are still working on sitting up by themselves. But baby orangutans at that age are already developing their engineering skills. Orangutans build complex sleeping ...

Now, it’s the orangutan’s turn. Through a combination of traditional recording and analysis with artificial intelligence (AI), scientists pinpointed three distinct types of pulses in the ...

In a study published in PeerJ, scientists have revealed the intricate vocal patterns of Bornean orangutans, shedding new light on the complexities of their communication. Titled "Vocal Complexity ...