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 ...

The new baby is the third baby born to Basan and Sirih and is the 12th orangutan at the zoo’s Orangutan Center. “There are so many different reasons that a successful birth like this are ...

The Indianapolis Zoo welcomed a male baby orangutan to its Simon Skjodt International Orangutan Center. This makes it 12 official primates that live at the zoo. The baby was born at 2:30 p.m. on ...

Rajang the orangutan offered a few sweet kisses through the glass to a pregnant woman and her growing baby Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

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

“People said I was crazy.” Commanding high prices as pets on the black market, baby orangutans can be captured only by killing their protective mothers. These orphans are being raised at ...

Sirih foraged for food, clambered up and down ladders, and sat in the sunshine with her baby. The orangutan is only the second one ever born at the zoo. For a species that is critically endangered ...

Orphaned orangutans attend classes where they learn to crack open coconuts, avoid predators, climb trees and much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Nestled in the crook of Sirih’s arm was an infant orangutan — a boy, a nameless clump of auburn hair born less than a week before on Feb. 20. He’s the first baby orangutan born at the Indianapolis Zoo ...

"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 animal ...

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 ...