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Study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology said there are no more than 800 of the primates, which researchers named Pongo tapanuliensis, making it the most endangered great ape species. (Photo: Pixabay)

New species of orangutans discovered

Their numbers are so small, and their habitat so fragmented, that they are in danger of going extinct, say the...

3 Nov 2017 10:57 AM IST

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and other institutions said the original population of the gentle ginger-haired great apes is larger than previously estimated but so is the rate of decline. (Photo:AP)

Orangutan population plunging at alarming rate in Indonesia

Finding is in line with International Union for Conservation of Nature's 2016 designation of Borneo's orangutans as...

16 Feb 2018 10:54 AM IST

This not the first that a zoo orangutan has been caught sneaking a smoke in Indonesia (Photo: Facebook)

Viral footage shows orangutan smoking cigarette in zoo

The images of 22-year-old Bornean orangutan Ozon at the zoo in Bandung, about 150 kilometres (93 miles) southeast of...

8 March 2018 7:03 PM IST

This not the first that a zoo orangutan has been caught sneaking a smoke in Indonesia (Photo: Facebook)

World's rarest ape on the edge of extinction

Fewer than 800 members of Tapanuli Orangutan survive and they are constantly under assault from man-made sources.

4 May 2018 4:48 PM IST

Born in 1956, she was noted by the Guinness Book of Records as being the oldest verified Sumatran orangutan in the world. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

World's oldest Sumatran orangutan dies aged 62

Puan -- Indonesian for "lady" -- died on Monday at Perth Zoo, where she had lived since being gifted by Malaysia in...

19 Jun 2018 10:19 AM IST

Bhardwaj murder: six detained

Bhardwaj murder: six detained

Two days after the daylight murder of BSP leader and billionaire businessman Deepak Bhardwaj, the Delhi police has...

29 March 2013 12:21 AM IST

Attack shows Pak anxious to spread terror actively

Attack shows Pak anxious to spread terror actively

Even as the home ministry on Thursday indicated that the terrorists who carried out the Jammu terror attack had...

27 Sept 2013 11:50 AM IST

Representational Image. (Photo: Pexels)

Orangutan that used sign language dies

He was well-known for his knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL).

8 Aug 2017 7:33 PM IST

This June 26, 2017 photo shows Toba, a female orangutan, wrapped up in her blanket at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden in Oklahoma City. The zoo is celebrating Tobas 50th birthday. (Steve Gooch/The Oklahoman via AP)

Toba the orangutan celebrates 50th birthday

Oldest living zoo-born mammal celebrates birthday at Oklahoma zoo.

4 July 2017 9:28 AM IST

Study finds population shrunk by a quarter in the last decade

Borneo sees a sharp decline in Orangutan population

Some 2,500 orangutans are killed in Borneo every year, the researchers say.

8 July 2017 5:19 PM IST