People could learn from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a healthy, balanced diet, say scientists. They found that, be it feast or famine, the primates adapt with "flexible" eating patterns.

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Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels ...

In groundbreaking work from The University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...

"These bridges allow orangutans to move, to mix, to maintain healthy populations," said conservationist Erwin Alamsyah ...

KHQ.COM - Orangutans may be more closely related to humans than scientists previously thought, a new genetic study has shown. The first blueprint of the orangutan genetic code has confirmed that they ...

When orangutans were shown two photos side by side, one of a dominant flanged male (having large pads on the sides of their faces) and one of an unflanged male, they spent more time looking at the ...

Rapid development has been shrinking the jungle habitat of the critically endangered species, and fatal conflicts with people have been increasing.

A new study comparing wild and zoo-housed Sumatran orangutans reveals that life in a zoo significantly alters how orangutans interact with their environment. Researchers analyzed over 12,000 instances ...