Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

SEATTLE — An animal keeper at Woodland Park Zoo was seriously injured after being bitten by an orangutan during a routine training session over the weekend. The WPZ said the keeper was taken to ...

Forty-three is old for an orangutan, which Tommy is; the median lifespan for male Sumatran orangutans is 25 years, and it's 27 years for male Bornean orangutans. For most of Tommy's life ...

Parents and children get a closer look at Cleo, one of two resident lions at the Sacramento Zoo, in 2019. Cleo, who had been at the zoo since 2007, died at the age of 19 from advancing kidney disease, ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo/Youtube Jinger Duggar Vuolo and husband Jeremy Vuolo welcomed their third baby, a boy named Finnegan Charles, on Saturday, March 29 The proud parents shared the news in a ...

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The same is true of the “higher primates.” The orangutan may be intelligent, but he is not self-conscious. Humans, on the other hand, are genuinely self-conscious. Philosopher Anthony O’Hear ...

World-class animal encounters await in the country's two biggest metropolises. But which sanctuary will you visit first? Our ...