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Bornean orangutan Kawan (24) gave birth to a healthy female infant at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. She arrived naturally at 9:30 a.m., ...
Animal caretakers are raising a baby orangutan that was recently born at Utah’s Hogle Zoo. Bornean orangutan Kawan delivered ...
A newborn orangutan is receiving around-the-clock care at a Utah zoo after her mother didn’t show much interest in her, officials said. “There’s a new face in the Great Apes Building,” the Hogle Zoo ...
Two male orangutans — Mia, 35, and Tuah, 10 — were included in the breeding recommendation. Once the baby is born, Hogle Zoo will determine its father through a blood test.
BANGKOK - Thai police have arrested a man suspected of smuggling two baby orang utans into the kingdom, they said on May 15, in a case linked to an international wildlife trafficking network.
Orangutan mother Sirih cuddles her baby boy. (PHOTO: Emily Reuben/WISH) The new baby is the third baby born to Basan and Sirih and is the 12th orangutan at the zoo’s Orangutan Center.
The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 to Basan and Sirih, also the parents of Mila an 8-year-old female orangutan also born at the zoo. In 2003, Sirih gave birth to another female named Jahe ...
Back in Gopeng, Orang Asli Semai Ulu Geruntum Action Committee member Pesenang Bah Singgong, known as Wah Sona in her village, expressed relief and elation at the court’s decision.
JERANTUT: The Orang Asli community of Kampung Sungai Keniam in Ulu Tembeling near here celebrated a milestone after they received their long-awaited birth certificates through the Menyemai Kasih ...
Jambi, the new baby orangutan at the Philadelphia Zoo. (Courtesy of Philadelphia Zoo) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!
Tua the endangered orangutan gives birth to a baby at Philadelphia Zoo After a difficult journey, the Sumatran orangutan became a mother again, adding a member to the critically endangered species.
A baby Tapanuli orangutan looking for food in the Batang Toru forest, North Sumatra, Indonesia, in September 2018. Image courtesy of Prayugo Utomo/Wikimedia Commons.