Along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, Biruté Galdikas, 79, made ground-breaking discoveries about one of humankind’s ...

Biruté Galdikas, who has died aged 79, was the world’s leading authority on orangutans and the least well-known of the ...

Biruté Galdikas was the third of the so-called Trimates, alongside Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall. She spent thousands of hours ...

Orangutans possess immense upper body strength, with arms capable of exerting force far beyond that of a human. While generally non-aggressive, they can react defensively if they feel threatened, ...

Surround a wild animal with humans, and there are bound to be some changes. Here are five animals that show differences in ...

In the early 1970s, orangutans occupied an ambiguous place in science. They were known to exist, of course, but remained ...

A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO ...

Biruté Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who dedicated her life to the study and conservation of orangutans, has died. She ...

With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the ...

An extra dose of spring sunshine will arrive at the Denver Zoo in the coming months, with Sumatran orangutan and first-time ...

She was part of a famous trio of scientists, along with Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, whose pioneering work transformed our ...

Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) named Pesek gave birth to her seventh child in Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL) in North ...