In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story.

The 18-month-old primate had "wounds on his head and fingers from rocking and banging his head on the cage," according to his rescuers Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her ...

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Researchers have confirmed that the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan, previously thought to live only in Sumatra’s Batang Toru forest, also inhabits a peat swamp forest 32 kilometers (20 miles ...

Indonesian palm oil company PT Equator Sumber Rezeki (ESR), part of First Borneo Group, has begun clearing critical orangutan habitat in West Kalimantan province, threatening high conservation value ...

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Warwick primatologists, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute, have shown that young orangutans develop their nighttime nest building skills via observational social learning - by closely ...

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises—but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story. Those ...