"A baby orangutan endured a heartbreaking year confined to a cage the size of a cupboard, highlighting the urgent need for wildlife conservation and rehabilitation efforts.

When you're a baby orangutan facing a long daunting trip abroad, a bit of luxury goes a long way. Kiwi was given her own first-class cabin as she sailed across the English Channel with her carers ...

The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a male baby orangutan to its Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. This makes it 12 official primates that live at the zoo. The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on Feb.

Sirih foraged for food, clambered up and down ladders, and sat in the sunshine with her baby. The orangutan is only the second one ever born at the zoo. For a species that is critically endangered ...

Nestled in the crook of Sirih’s arm was an infant orangutan — a boy, a nameless clump of auburn hair born less than a week before on Feb. 20. He’s the first baby orangutan born at the Indianapolis Zoo ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Tuesday, the Indianapolis Zoo introduced its newest resident, a male baby orangutan, to zoo visitors. It was the first time that orangutan mom Sirih has brought her baby ...

British photographer Aaron Gekoski has documented human-wildlife conflict for more than a decade. His latest project exposes the horrors of baby orangutans captured from the wild in Malaysia and ...

Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard present a series featuring orphaned and rescued orangutans in Borneo. Steve tries to rescue a baby orangutan being illegally held in a village. Show more ...

Orphaned orangutans attend classes where they learn to crack open coconuts, avoid predators, climb trees and much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

“People said I was crazy.” Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans can be captured only by killing their protective mothers. These orphans are being raised at ...