The Cameron Park Zoo has announced the birth of its newest resident, a baby orangutan! Elissa Slotkin says she’s under ...

MADISON, Wis. — A 3-year-old orangutan at the Henry Vilas Zoo was vaccinated against the flu last week, officials said.

Christmas came early at the Memphis Zoo with the much-anticipated arrival of an orangutan baby, a girl named Ruhana ...

Viktoria, a 3-year-old Amur tiger, comes to Louisville from Rolling Hills Zoo in Kansas. She can be found on rotation at the ...

Best known as the home of the world’s rarest great ape, the mountainous Batang Toru forest landscape on the island of Sumatra ...

INDIANAPOLIS— Azy, the oldest male orangutan in North America, turned 48 at the Indianapolis Zoo Sunday. Azy moved to the Indianapolis Zoo in 2010 and currently resides in the Simon Skjodt ...

WLKY NEWS. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 28 YEARS, THE LOUISVILLE ZOO IS WELCOMING TWO NEW ORANGUTANS, SAM AND KYRA ARE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, AND THEY CAME TO LOUISVILLE FROM THE CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO. THE ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A mother-daughter duo of Sumatran orangutans recently joined the Louisville Zoo, the first new orangutans at the zoo in 28 years. Sumaga, 38, and Kera, 7, came to Louisville ...

Humans are to blame for the decline of these amazing apes — but people are also responsible for saving orphaned orangutans and helping them learn how to survive in the wild.

When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible plants and animals, and the knowledge of how to acquire and process them. A ...