Have you ever wondered if an orangutan could be trained to assist like a seeing-eye dog? In this intriguing #shorts video, ...

“When you look at them in the eyes, it's like your brother,” said photographer Alain Schroeder, who recently spent six months documenting the animals in Indonesia. The name orangutan ...

“She was so observant, and [orangutans] are so humanlike. She was looking me in the eye as I was talking and looking at Caleb and just holding her baby next to her.” It’s not uncommon for ...

Researchers don't know. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Rakus, a wild orangutan in Indonesia, suffered a nasty wound under his eye, so he did something scientists have never seen a wild animal do ...

One photographer has proven that eyes really are the window to the soul in these critically endangered great apes. Mark Edward Harris' photo series 'Orangutans On a Thin Vine' shines a light on a ...

The Orangutan Project Vivy ... Vivy had an irreparably damaged right eye with a ruptured cornea, leaving the primate permanently blind in one eye. Vivy also had two air rifle pellets lodged ...

"Oh, there's Kusasi!" Galdikas says, greeting a large orangutan with soulful brown eyes as he emerges from the luxuriant rain forest surrounding the camp. Kusasi stomps onto the porch, reaches ...

May 2 (Reuters) - In June 2022, a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing ...

He sports a nasty injury on his face below his right eye and decides ... but Rakus is not a lost hiker in the jungle. He is an orangutan. This great ape was observed in June 2022 by a team ...

With their bright eyes and prominent beards and mustaches, it’s easy to see how orangutans got their name; “orang” is Malay for person, while “hutan” means forest. Their similarity to ...