Suman Bindumadhav

Force in Play

As of September 2026: Raised concerns the mothers were killed

Five baby orangutans were found Tuesday morning in a coastal casuarina forest in Odisha, India. They were all under a year old, calm enough to be handled by hand, and thousands of kilometers from home — orangutans exist in the wild only on the Indonesian and Malaysian islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

Updated Sep 9