Although local communities were aware of orangutans in the area, no formal research had been done. Aerial surveys confirmed the presence of nearly 1,000 fresh nests across the area, indicating ...

Once a baby orangutan can confidently move through the trees, they go on to learn general skills, such as nest building, how to interact with other orangutans, what animals to fear and avoid ...

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually make their nests in palm forests. But one day in 2014, Panut Hadisiswoyo caught sight of an orangutan riding around the streets of Medan, the island’s ...

He noted that some of the orangutans he encountered appeared skinny, with their fur thinning because of malnutrition. Other ...

occasionally meeting another orangutan for the briefest of interactions before making a nest to sleep in at the end of the day; every now and again they will do something that amazes you ...

Mad Zaidi said the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report in 2019, based on a survey of orang utan nests between May 2014 and March 2017, found that the animal population in Sabah had been stable for 15 ...