Orangutan young highly depends on the social guidance of their mothers to know the safe food list for consumption.

When the weather heats up, everyone is trying to find a way to cool down, whether they are human or animal. That includes zoo animals, such as this Bornean orangutan at the San Francisco Zoo. As this ...

When a wild orangutan leaves its mother after spending many years by her side, it has a mental catalog of almost 250 edible ...

In her own research in Uganda, Reddy studied four adolescent male chimpanzees who adopted their younger siblings after their ...

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Young orangutans cannot learn their diets alone. A new study shows that watching others gives them the knowledge they need to survive.