An orangutan named Suryia and a stray hound dog named Roscoe became best friends on a preserve in Myrtle Beach, Dr. Baghavan "Doc" Antle explains. An orangutan named Suryia and a stray hound dog named ...

An unlikely duo is attracting attention at a South Carolina wildlife reserve. Suryia the orangutan and Roscoe the Bluetick hound have become inseparable. And now the pals have released a picture book ...

A visitor at the zoo threw a lit cigarette toward the orangutan. BEIJING -- A video showing an orangutan smoking a cigarette has gone viral -- and sparked international anger toward a controversial ...

For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.

A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on ...

Source: Safruddin, Armas, Ulil Azhari, Adami, used with permission. The wild Sumatran orangutans of the Suaq Balimbing research area in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, have been the subjects ...

A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal. Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so ...

This week on Humankind, inspiration came in many forms. Creatures featured heavily in our favorite stories. We saw an ape take a shine to a mom and her baby at the zoo, a squirrel tag along with a ...