Comprehensive reference genomes have now been assembled for six ape species: siamang (a Southeast Asian gibbon), Sumatran ...

Galdikas says, greeting a large orangutan with soulful brown eyes as ... (Leakey also mentored chimp researcher Jane Goodall and gorilla researcher Dian Fossey; he called them the "trimates.") ...

Travelling to see great apes in the wild is nothing less than a family holiday. Whether you're off to Africa to visit gentle giants or south-east Asia for charismatic redheads, encounters with our ...

said Tara Stoinski, president and chief scientific officer of the nonprofit Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, who had no role in the study. An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a ...

Bornean orangutan, gorilla, bonobo and chimpanzee. Areas of their genomes previously inaccessible because of structural complexity have now mostly been resolved. The resource is already lending ...

An orangutan (not the one pictured) has been deemed safe after biting a zoo worker in Seattle. Chris Tellez via Unsplash An orangutan bit a zookeeper’s hand through a mesh barrier, causing a ...