With baby gorillas fetching up to $550,000, the illicit trade is booming as demand for African great apes rises in China, the Middle East, and Pakistan.

Birth of an endangered ape: ‘This new baby has brought a lot of hope’ Fewer than 200,000 of the primates now live in the wild in their native habitats of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

Dee Dee is delighted with her new year’s gift. According to Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, the park’s rare Bornean orangutan Dee Dee gave birth to a baby ape on Jan. 6.

The sweet moment a baby orangutan that had been separated from its mother gets rescued in a remote village was captured in several photos. The frightened baby ape, named "Aben" by his rescuers ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —A baby orangutan at the Kansas City Zoo is bonding well with an adoptive mother after zoo workers took care of baby Kalijon for months.

The baby's parents, 23-year-old Tamatha and 36-year-old Larry, are visible on their habitat islands in the last section of the drive-through safari, park officials said. White-handed gibbons are a ...

Kitra the 20-year-old orangutan is taking to motherhood well after giving birth to a baby ape at the Oregon Zoo Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013 ...

A tiny, yet-to-be-named gibbon is one of the Dallas Zoo’s newest arrivals. On Wednesday, the zoo shared a photo of the baby ape, staring wide-eyed at the camera, his tiny feet perched on a human ...