The Kansas City Zoo didn’t have the best track record when it came to penning-in its primates—two gorillas got out in 2012 and two chimpanzees ran away in 2014 (I assume they all were brought back?).

BANDUNG, Indonesia -- Conservationists are demanding action after an orangutan was caught on camera smoking a cigarette thrown into its habitat at an Indonesian zoo, the latest in a string of ...

Indonesian Pulpwood producer PT Mayawana Persada is continuing to clear peatlands on critical Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) habitat, despite a government order to stop clearing. An NGO coalition ...

A critically endangered Bornean orangutan has been shot dead, hacked to pieces and eaten by workers after straying onto an Indonesian palm oil plantation, police and activists said Thursday. Police ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure ...

The zoo announced Monday that they named the baby girl “Clementine.” Clementine's name was selected by the Congo Expedition team by majority vote within the department. The zoo said the keepers came ...

An animal park in Belgium has welcomed the arrival of a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan. The male orangutan, named Mathaï, was born on November 28 at Pairi Daiza animal park, spokesman ...

A baby Bornean orangutan with a threatened natural habitat was recently born at the Toledo Zoo in Ohio, the zoo announced on June 28.The little one was born to parents Yasmin and Boomer. “Mom and baby ...

An orangutan at a zoo in Australia found an unwanted visitor in its treehouse. The ape’s solution? To quite literally throw the visitor out. A video posted on Reddit by user @j___---h on Sept. 9 ...

SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo officials said Monday they are expecting the arrival of its first orangutan baby in over three decades. Fourteen-year-old Sumatran orangutan Batu (bah-too) is nearing the ...

An orangutan briefly escaped its enclosure at the Toronto Zoo on Thursday evening, and the zoo is now asking anyone who might have video of the caper to come forward. The zoo said a volunteer alerted ...