The villagers who first spotted the five baby orangutans in a casuarina forest in India in early September were puzzled by their reddish hair and unfamiliar faces.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The discovery of five baby orangutans abandoned on a plantation in eastern India is highlighting the country’s growing role as a destination for trafficked apes. Experts say wealthy collectors, expanding air links with Southeast Asia and loopholes…
This is the amusing moment an orangutan shows off its impressive acrobatic skills in a Chinese wildlife park. Visitors could be forgiven for thinking they'd stumbled across the training ground for the next olympic games during their recent visit to…
Camera-trap footage from Senegal shows adult chimpanzees handing tools and fruit to infants in what researchers interpret as a form of teaching.
The key to keeping males in line? Joining forces. Why do female bonobos often outrank males, especially when the opposite is true for most social mammals, like their close relative the chimpanzee? That’s the question Martin Surbeck and his colleagues…
"There were competing ideas for how," says MPI-AB's Barbara Fruth who has led the LuiKotale bonobo research station for 30 years, "none of which had ever been tested in wild bonobos living in the jungles in which they evolved." Female solidarity…
In humans, hunting is considered a man's endeavor. But in one of our closest living relatives, hunting is primarily women's business. A 10-year study of wild bonobos reveals that hunting is predominantly carried out by females, regardless of whether they…
Young orangutans build broad diets through watching and exploration, giving them more options when familiar foods are hard to find. At its mother’s side, a young orangutan learns its diet by watching her eat and then handling the same foods…
Dependable fathers may account for the larger brains of some mammals, research finds. Developing a large brain comes at a price: An infant expends around two-thirds of its energy alone on supplying nourishment to its brain. First milk and then…
The social lives of wild orangutans are far more deliberate than we realized—and far more like our own. Published October 27, 2026 When I was a child, I visited Monkey World, the ape rescue centre in Dorset, and I’ve never forgotten…
Arboreal great apes of Borneo and Sumatra—masters of the canopy.
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