The rebooted franchise had distinguished itself from typical blockbuster I.P.s crowding multiplexes - but this new entry is ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new Planet of the Apes franchise has craft and soul to spare, but it lacks direction — the sense that it's building to ...

Ever since a giant gorilla scaled the Empire State Building with a beautiful damsel in his hand in 1933's King Kong, ...

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 ...

Gorilla tourism in Africa has been suspended, while sanctuaries for other apes, such as orangutans, have closed to the public. It's not known if great apes can contract the virus, but there are ...