Births are spreading New Year’s cheer at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park. Zoo fans were saddened when charismatic 26-year-old orangutan, Satu, collapsed and died Dec. 22 while fighting an illness ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Audubon Zoo has announced the death of its 36-year-old orangutan named Feliz. Audubon leaders said Feliz ...

Zoo Atlanta has announced the death of one of its founding members of its great ape population: 52-year-old Biji the Sumatran orangutan. Representatives with the zoo confirmed that Biji was euthanized ...

Kitra the 20-year-old orangutan is taking to motherhood well after giving birth to a baby ape at the Oregon Zoo Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

Audubon Zoo is grieving the "sudden" death of 36-year-old orangutan Feliz, a decades-long fixture at the zoo and matriarch of its orangutan family, officials announced Monday. Feliz died late Friday ...

At six months old, human infants are still working on sitting up by themselves. But baby orangutans at that age are already developing their engineering skills. Orangutans build complex sleeping ...

His birth was no easy feat – born through artificial insemination and delivered via caesarean section after a high-risk ...

Ayaan – great-grandson of the late Ah Meng, the iconic ambassador of the zoo – and his mother, Chomel, will be at the ...

An orangutan at the Louisville Zoo recently asked for a close-up look at a young visitor. A viral video filmed by Kayla Jaylen Natsis this week shows a curious orangutan at the zoo gesturing toward ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The Audubon Zoo has announced the death of its 36-year-old orangutan named Feliz. Audubon leaders said Feliz was brought to the zoo in 1989 and died suddenly following a brief ...