Orangutan

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critically enda…

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critically enda…

JAKARTA: The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critic…

The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critically enda…

JAKARTA: The young orangutan looks back at her rescuers before clambering over her steel cage and into the trees, swinging from hand to hand and hanging upside down. Five-year-old primate Elaine, covered in fuzzy cinnamon-coloured hair, was one of two critic…

A four-and-half-year-old orangutan has today been released into the wild in Indonesia.  Rere was set free from a cage at the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) Reintroduction and Quarantine Station in Jantho, Aceh Besar. Together with Aceh Natur…

KUALA LUMPUR: The giant panda enclosure at Kuala Lumpurs Zoo Negara provided visitors a cooling respite from the hot and humid weather. On Tuesday morning (Jun 11), the zoos biggest attraction, a one-year-old giant panda cub, was enjoying the air-conditioned…

"I spend a great deal of my time in the jungle, surveying the heartbreaking damage caused by rampant deforestation of the orangutans' home, usually to make way for palm oil and other agricultural plantations," Cocks said. "Our focus and the majority of my tim…

A rare example of cultural evolution in action: Throughout the Highlands of New Guinea, a groups ability to raise large numbers of pigs is directly related to i…

By Gatu MbariaOn Tuesday, the world received the sad news that the last male Sumatran rhino was dead, leaving behind a sole female that lives in protected rather than natural space. Last year, the world had received news of the death in Northern Kenya of Sud…