Cheyenne, a 52-year-old orangutan at the Houston Zoo, died from complications of a kidney infection, the zoo said.

What should his name be? This baby orangutan was expected next month, but he came a little earlier than expected at the ...

Orangutan Sirih shows her new baby boy at Indianapolis Zoo’s Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. His sister Mila and dad Basan swing nearby.

The tiny primate clutched his mother, eyes just barely open. Only five days old, the unnamed orangutan was the newest arrival to the Indianapolis Zoo community. His mother, Sirih, carried the ...

All three species of orangutan are increasingly losing their wild habitat to violent deforestation. The growing palm oil industry is particularly culpable. But Sirih, 32 years old, and her baby, about ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — On Tuesday, the Indianapolis Zoo introduced its newest resident, a male baby orangutan, to zoo visitors. It was the first time that orangutan mom Sirih has brought her baby ...

"IT’S A BOY! Orangutan mom Sirih gave birth to a healthy male baby this afternoon," the zoo said in a social media post. The post said the baby and mom were "doing great" and that the zoo's ...

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 ...