The Sacramento Zoo welcomed a critically endangered baby orangutan earlier this month, it announced Monday in a news release. Indah, a 19-year-old Sumatran orangutan, gave birth on May 1 ...

She had been orphaned at nine months old at the Metro Richmond Zoo, when her own mother had died unexpectedly from heart failure, and had never seen another orangutan mother raise a baby.

A new orangutan baby at the Denver Zoo will have you cooing “ooh ooh, ahh ahh” just like your fellow primates. Eirina, a Sumatran orangutan who drank her Denver caretaker’s favorite ...

Expert Falko Balfanz said that Mota, a 58-year-old female orangutan, loves spending time with Sari and Kendari. But proud mom Sari protectively keeps her newborn close to her chest as she walks ...

The new baby has not yet been named. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Zoo officials hope the birth ushers in the start of a new generation of Bornean orangutans being born ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Tuesday, the Indianapolis Zoo introduced its newest resident, a male baby orangutan, to zoo visitors. It was the first time that orangutan mom Sirih has brought her baby ...

A quiet act of compassion at a Danish zoo may have saved a newborn orangutan’s life — thanks to a breastfeeding mother and a ...

For months, 30 women breastfed their babies in front of a pregnant orangutan as part of a plan to teach the expecting mother how to care for her newborn at the Dublin Zoo in Ireland. Mujur ...

The father of a newborn orangutan at the Denver Zoo was a mystery to staff until they called in paternity test expert Maury Povich. The veteran daytime talk show host, best known for telling ...