A zoo in Belgium has shared some amazing photos of a blossoming friendship between a family of orangutans and their otter neighbors. The animals live together at Pairi Daiza zoo in Domaine du Cambron, as part of a program designed to maintain the primates' wellbeing in captivity.

Indonesia has promised to stop clearing jungle for plantations. So why are endangered apes still on the front lines of the conservation battle?

Conservationists in Borneo have rescued an orangutan that had been locked in a wooden crate for four years. The young female, named Senandung, had been living in a cage no larger than six foot six inches by five feet. Villagers in Punai Jaya tipped off Indonesian officials about the ape’s plight and a team from International Animal Rescue and the Nature Conservation Agency (BKSDA) of West Kalimantan found the orangutan and put her under quarantine.

Destruction likely to be just the tip of the iceberg, campaigners warn

Humans aren’t the only animals that have discovered medicinal products in nature. By Doug Main.

Orangutan populations in Borneo are in steep decline and can not cope with with current levels of killing. Their jungle habitats are threatened by deforestation, driven by plam oil production. Orangutans are "highly likely" to become extinct if current trends continue, according to a study released Friday which found that the apes' population in Borneo had plunged by more than 100,000 in 16 years. The region's orangutans live exclusively on Sumatra and Borneo.

The thought-provoking portrait took the grand prize in the 2017 Nature Photographer of the Year Contest.

A population of about 800 apes living in the Sumatran mountains are genetically distinct, a new study says.

The foundation nursing the primate back to health says they have never taken care of an albino orangutan and cannot find others like it in the wild. By Heather Brady. (May 18, 2017)

An orangutan copying sounds made by researchers offers new clues to how human speech evolved, scientists say.

The personal side of reporting on endangered animals in far-flung places.

This 14-year-old female Orangutan builds a hammock all on her own. Which is incredible, but how tragic for such an intelligent animal to be trapped in a cage. For clarification: we are not affiliated with the zoo where this orangutan is kept.

Patience may be a virtue, but Tilda, a female orangutan currently living in a German Zoo, would rather not wait to receive attention, and has started producing human-like vocalizations in order to be noticed by her keepers. That makes Tilda the first known wild-born orangutan to produce novel calls similar to those made by humans. Furthermore, her intriguing ability may help us understand more about the evolutionary origins of speech, which continues to elude researchers.

In an unprecedented decision, an Argentine court has ruled that the Sumatran orangutan 'Sandra', who has spent 20 years at the zoo in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, should be recognized as a person with a right to freedom. The ruling, signed by the judges unanimously, would see Sandra freed from captivity and transferred to a nature sanctuary in Brazil after a court recognized the primate as a "non-human person" which has some basic human rights. The Buenos Aires...

6 things you never knew about Orangutans.

Loveable Pongo, who just turned a year old on January 10, was born by caesarean and raised by a team of keepers at Zoo Atlanta while his mum recovered.

An old classic. Fu Manchu the escape artist.