Wendy Erb has spent countless hours studying orangutans in Borneo's tropical peatland forests in order to learn how male Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) communicate. While doing so, she ...

Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Male Bornean Orangutan - Big Cheeks. Image by Eric Kilby from Somerville, MA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, ...

Researchers from Indianapolis Zoo and the University of Amsterdam have found that at least one orangutan living in captivity can produce sounds that qualify as “faux speech.” The orangutan in question ...

In work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalize with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting a much older ...

We listen to orangutan sounds that surprised scientists and give the latest version of Google Translate a try. Orangutan Speaks? Google Translates! [Youtube] There’s news this week about an orangutan ...

In groundbreaking work from The University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...

At first glance, a video of an orangutan imitating a trainer’s grunts may not seem incredibly significant. But primate researchers say Rocky, the 11-year-old orangutan in the video, could ...

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises – but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story.