“Sometimes I feel like I’ve chosen the most difficult thing in the world to study,” Cheryl Knott tells me as we sit beneath the rain forest canopy at her orangutan research station in ...

Orangutans belong to the Hominidae family, also called the great apes. They are highly intelligent and share around 96.4% of our DNA. Orangutans are the only great apes in Asia, making their homes on ...

Their dense forest home makes it difficult to determine population sizes, but the Bornean orangutan is estimated to number around 54,000 individuals, while there are an estimated 6,600 Sumatran ...

Orangutans only live in Southeast Asia, in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. But their habitat ... One of the three orangutan species, the Sumatran orangutan, is down to about 14,000.

Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii ... during the last decades in order to extend agricultural land in Sumatra and Borneo. Ten thousand orangutans lost their home and their lives during the forest ...

Bornean orangutan Kyle climbs a web made of recycled fire hose in the Great Ape House’s outdoor habitat. Connor Mallon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

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 ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Forestry Ministry has released 83 Sumatran Orangutans and 414 Bornean Orangutans back into their natural habitats between 2020 and 2024. These orangutans were ...