People could learn from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a healthy, balanced diet, say scientists. They found that, be it feast or famine, the primates adapt with "flexible" eating patterns.

Redd’s daily treatment reveals how orangutans with chronic respiratory diseases are adapting to use certain medical tools designed for humans. Mike Bock Redd, left, and his mother, Batang, right. Both ...

Biomarkers in the teeth of wild orangutans indicate nursing patterns related to food fluctuations in their habitats, which can help guide understanding of breast-feeding evolution in humans, according ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max ...

The great apes have a great diet. Vogel said that while orangutans reduce physical activity during low fruit periods to conserve energy, humans - especially those with couch potato lifestyles - may ...