The zoo announced that Bornean Orangutan Kawan gave birth to a healthly female infant on Saturday, June 21 at 9:30 a.m. The ...

Nature: Orangutans in Borneo 04:46. For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the ...

The Little Rock Zoo has announced that their youngest male orangutan, Kota, had passed away from encephalitis.Kota had been ...

The Sacramento Zoo welcomed a critically endangered baby orangutan earlier this month, it announced Monday in a news release. Indah, a 19-year-old Sumatran orangutan, gave birth on May 1, the ...

A zoo in the U.K. is celebrating the birth of a Bornean orangutan – the zoo's first birth of the critically-endangered animal in 20 years. The male Bornean orangutan, who was born earlier this ...

An orangutan struggled to nurse her baby. A human new mom taught her how. Zoe, an orangutan at the Metro Richmond Zoo, had troubles breastfeeding her first baby ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a baby orangutan and asked Hoosiers to name the baby. With more than 9,000 votes, the name ‘Edi’ is now the baby’s name. Edi means “the ...

There are now 12 orangutans living at the Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center in Indianapolis — among the most of any zoo in the United States. In the wild, it’s estimated only 50,000 to ...

The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 to Basan and Sirih, also the parents of Mila an 8-year-old female orangutan also born at the zoo. In 2003, Sirih gave birth to another female named Jahe ...

The new baby is the third baby born to Basan and Sirih and is the 12th orangutan at the zoo’s Orangutan Center. “There are so many different reasons that a successful birth like this are ...

Investigators are working to determine the origin of the baby orangutans, Kasidach Charoenlap, a police officer with the Central Investigation Bureau, told CNN on Friday. The man had admitted he ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a baby orangutan and asked Hoosiers to name the baby. With more than 9,000 votes, the name ‘Edi’ is now the baby’s name. Edi means &#8… ...