Animal caretakers are raising a baby orangutan that was recently born at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. Bornean orangutan Kawan delivered ...

The team sought guidance from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums and the Orangutan Species Survival Plan and discussed the ...

Eirina, a Sumatran orangutan who drank her Denver caretaker’s favorite pregnancy tea for morning sickness relief, birthed a healthy baby on Sunday, Denver Zoo announced in a news release.

Orangutan babies are born after an 8-month gestation and are dependent on their mothers. Babies will nurse from their mothers for up to 6 years, but can start eating solid foods at 4 months old.

A zoo in the U.K. is celebrating the birth of a Bornean orangutan – the zoo's first birth of the critically-endangered animal in 20 years. The male Bornean orangutan, who was born earlier this ...

Newborn Sumatran orangutan welcomed at Denver Zoo 00:24. The Denver Zoo is welcoming the arrival of the newborn Sumatran orangutan to mom Elrina.The baby arrived on Sunday and is believed to be a ...

Baby orangutans are completely dependent on their mothers for the first three to four years of life. Mothers don't become empty nesters until their offspring are around seven to eight years old.

The Saint Louis Zoo welcomed the arrival of a baby orangutan on December 22, marking the first orangutan birth at the Zoo in nine years. This birth is important because these are critically endange… ...

An orangutan at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky warmed hearts after she tapped on the glass of her enclosure to try to see a three-month-old baby better — then kissed the glass.

July 27 (UPI) --A U.K. zoo is heralding the arrival of a new orangutan baby, the second born at the zoo in the past four weeks. The Dudley Zoo in Dudley, U.K., announced Tuesday that Sprout, its ...

When an orangutan named Zoe at Metro Richmond Zoo wouldn’t breastfeed her baby, a zookeeper — who was also a new mom — showed her what to do."I mean I was immediately, like, honored. I was ...