Orangutans can’t look away from dominant males with cheek pads, suggesting visual bias and sexual selection shape primate ...

What role does environmental settings play in behavior? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated behaviors ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max ...

Balikpapan. After living in cages for more than 10 years and being illegally kept by residents, two male orangutans named ...

Orangutans, humans’ close evolutionary relatives, have developed remarkable strategies to survive in the unpredictable ...

People could learn from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a healthy, balanced diet, say scientists. They found that, be it feast or famine, the primates adapt with "flexible" eating patterns.

Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet.            Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans ...

“Orangutan nest-building tendency may have some innate basis, but the details and method must be socially learned starting from a very young age,” University of Warwick psychologist and paper ...

Dr. Caroline Schuppli, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, senior author of the study said, "Aside from learning 'how to' build a nest, immature orangutans also appear to learn the 'know-what' of ...