“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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — From the Indianapolis Zoo’s orangutan center on Thursday afternoon, keepers proclaimed, “It’s a boy.” Orangutan mom Sirih gave birth to the healthy baby.

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 ...

Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of Borneo’s Gunung Palung National Park. Together with their children ...

Ten years ago, I set off for Borneo to study orangutans. I knew how closely related they were to humans, but when I actually experienced the orangutans first hand, I found the similarities ...

The new baby is the third baby born to Basan and Sirih and is the 12th orangutan at the zoo’s Orangutan Center. “There are so many different reasons that a successful birth like this are ...

Vandu and Raba are two Bornean Orangutans that have spent most of their lives in captivity at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, a glaring juxtaposition from the their relatives in ...

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 ...

The tiny primate clutched his mother, eyes just barely open. Only five days old, the unnamed orangutan was the newest arrival to the Indianapolis Zoo community. His mother, Sirih, carried the ...

We started studying orangutans in the Sebangau forest over 20 years ago, slowly coming to know the lives of over 50 individuals by diligently following them from dawn to dusk in the dense peat ...