Wareham, UK - Kiwi the baby orangutan was born in a Spanish zoo last December, but it soon became clear that the mother monkey would not accept her baby and refused to feed the newborn.

When you're a baby orangutan facing a long daunting trip abroad, a bit of luxury goes a long way. Kiwi was given her own first-class cabin as she sailed across the English Channel with her carers ...

At a forest school in Borneo, baby orangutans learn tree-climbing skills from their human surrogate parents. The orphans spend 12 hours a day in the forest, preparing for a new life in the wild.

Baby orangutans wear diapers, sleep in cots and are looked after by uniformed nurses at Orangutan Island in northern Malaysia. The center claims to be fighting to preserve the endangered primates ...

A female orangutan was shaved, chained up and forced into sexual acts with men twice her size after being stolen as a baby, according to environmental workers. The traumatised animal, known as ...

Michaela Strachan and Steve Leonard present a series featuring orphaned and rescued orangutans in Borneo. Steve tries to rescue a baby orangutan being illegally held in a village. Show more ...

The zoo's 19-year-old orangutan, Mujur, gave birth to a healthy male baby at the end of July but has not been feeding. Over the past few months, the zoo arranged for 30 new mothers to take turns ...