See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to ...

WASHINGTON — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...

In primates, the biggest, bossiest males usually get to father the most offspring; and for a long time it was thought that this rule applied to orangutans too. Male orangutans openly compete; and it's ...

Taxonomy, geographic variation, and population genetics of Bornean and Sumatran orangutans / Benoît Goossens ... [et al.] -- The functional significance of variation in jaw form in orangutans / Andrea ...

Rakus the orangutan seems to have a surprisingly decent grasp on first-aid. He lives in Gunung Leuser National Park in South Aceh, Indonesia, where scientists from the Institute of Animal Behavior ...

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 ...

In a new study, researchers discuss two possible priorities in an orangutan's life: sleep and friends. After following multiple orangutans over 17 years, a team of experts gained better-than-ever ...

Biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia observed a large male orangutan self-medicating—using a paste of chewed up plants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue to ...

One of the most persistent mysteries about our own species' evolution is the development of complex language. How we managed to move from making simple grunts to advanced sentences in which we can now ...