Workers at the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to 6,000 orangutans, have been preparing some of their residents for release back into the wild. It is, however, no mean feat. The apes need to be ...

and orangutan Raka (Peter Macon) — and William H. Macy — who plays Trevathan, advisor to ruling bonobo Proximus Caesar (Kevin ...

Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees—fellow great apes that live in groups and can be followed and observed relatively easily—orangutans live mostly solitary lives. They spend nearly all their time ...

Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of ...

Orangutans are great apes, our closest living relatives on earth ... Unless we can develop more respect for life on this planet other than our own, it too will likely soon disappear.

It’s not unusual, he said, for the caretakers to form an emotional connection with the apes. “I wasn’t allowed to touch (the orangutans), but all the caretakers, they take them in their arms ...

Hadisiswoyo runs the Orangutan Information Centre, an Indonesian NGO devoted to saving endangered apes, and so he gave chase, on foot, through traffic. “I jumped in the rickshaw and made the ...

Biological anthropologists use genetic data to understand the evolutionary relationships that humans share with great apes and to examine ... gorilla, and orangutan genomes have provided us ...