Chiba Zoological Park
千葉市動物公園
Symphalangus syndactylus,Hylobatidae,سیامانگ

It’s a coconut-cracking lesson for the orphans of the orangutan jungle school. But with some students doing better than others, it doesn’t take long for one of the strugglers to turn to thievery.

From the Series: Orangutan Jungle School: A Whole New World…

A 9-year old orangutan has pried open a section of the fence, allowing many of the other young orangutans to escape. Rounding them up is going to be a major headache.

From the Series: Orangutan Jungle School: Weighs and Means http://bit.ly/2MsHtgo

Gerd Schuster, co-author of Thinkers of the Jungle: The Orangutan Report describes the below photo he captured as follow. “A male orangutan, clinging precariously to overhanging branches, flails the water with a pole, trying desperately to spear a passing…

Forget Florida man, now there’s Florida monkeys. A roving band of feral, herpes-ridden monkeys is roaming across northeast Florida. The STD-addled rhesus macaques had previously been confined...