Some baby animals’ survival skills are instinctual, while others must be learned from their mothers. For these orphaned baby orangutans who don’t have moms to teach them, this learning happens at ...

"Orangutan nest-building tendency may have some innate basis, but the details and method must be socially learned, starting from a very young age by watching and practicing, learning from mistakes as ...

Wendy Erb has spent countless hours studying orangutans in Borneo's tropical peatland forests in order to learn how male Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) communicate. While doing so, she ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications Biology, University of Warwick researchers witnessed something totally adorable: young Sumatran orangutans learning how to “engineer” complex nests ...

Male orangutans that resettle to a new area appear to be imitating the behavior of a local individual in an effort to survive and find a future home range, a new study says. The researchers have ...

Subtle variations seen in a species across its range often turn out to be important to successful conservation. That is because, on closer examination, populations are found to be genetically ...

When it comes to motherhood, orangutans are animals of distinction. An orangutan mother will stay in close contact with her baby for up to nine years--longer than almost all mammals other than humans.

The latest feature from Disney’s Disneynature imprint, narrated by Disney Legend Josh Gad, will arrive on Disney+ on Earth Day, April 22. The new feature “introduces Indah, an inquisitive adolescent ...

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.