Griese and other zoo staff said she’s an excellent mom, handling the baby’s care like a pro. The orangutan family is not totally dissimilar to a human one. Paper plates that read “celebrate” are ...

What should his name be? This baby orangutan was expected next month, but he came a little earlier than expected at the ...

A family of four Bornean orangutans are the most recent additions to the Naples Zoo. The primate family at the Naples Zoo consists of Deedee, Dira, Randee and Ripley. These primates are known for ...

Orangutans are great apes, our closest living relatives on earth. They are our cousins, and it is largely because we are all "family," so to speak, that we resemble one another so closely.

They currently have four orangutans who live in two family groups: Batu and Godek share a habitat, and 35-year-old male Heran and 43-year-old female Belawan (Bela) live in the other orangutan habitat.

Rajang the orangutan offered a few sweet kisses through the glass to a pregnant woman and her growing baby Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

As portrayed by Barbie Wu, this great ape has a gift for communicating with humans who are learning to navigate their own differences.

A Dorset monkey sanctuary has taken in an infant orangutan which had become vulnerable after its mother had been unable to ...

Orangutans, which are classified as great apes, share 96.4% of human genes, according to the World Wildlife Fund Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the ...

Together with their children, they’ve made it a family mission to reveal new threats to the great apes in their rain forest homes. The Nat Geo WILD show Orangutans on the Edge: Mission Critical ...

Cheyenne will be missed by the entire Zoo family." Orangutans like Cheyenne are an endangered species, primarily found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Deforestation, palm oil plantation ...

Shumaker said, "It's normal for female orangutans to spend time alone with their babies. They don't live in big families or even small family groups." Mila is becoming independent, and this is her ...