The expressive, heart-melting faces of baby orangutans make them highly valuable in the black-market pet trade, within Indonesia as well as smuggled out of Borneo or Sumatra to foreign destinations.

The Houston Zoo is once again mourning the loss of one of its resident orangutans. On Sunday morning, the zoo's 52-year-old ...

The oldest orangutan at the Houston Zoo died Sunday morning while in recovery after undergoing an emergency exam to diagnose ...

Orangutans are the only primate in which this biological phenomenon ... and sustainable development of 22 million hectares of forest in an area known as the Heart of Borneo. This vision includes a ...

Orangutans can live around 35-40 years in the wild, while the oldest orangutan to live in captivity died at age 62, according ...