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 ...

Woodland Park Zoo announced Thursday that its 15-year-old Sumatran orangutan, Batu, has lost her baby after carrying the ...

Orangutans that live in Sumatra usually ... It’s also rarely easy. The National Geographic emerging explorer spends most of his time trying to stop deforestation by palm oil and other commodity ...

As we talk, Knott’s associates are at work in the surrounding forest of Indonesia’s Gunung Palung National Park with GPS units and iPads, following orangutans in their daily wanderings ...

In Sarawak, the orangutan lives in rugged terrains and so Bob has to ... Kuching: Be it exploring something new or to re-learn our history, the documentaries brought by National Geographic have drawn ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... No one would doubt that the five fingers at the end of an orangutan’s arm are anything else. In other cases we ...