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Featured Animals – Orangutan

Discover “everything orangutan” around the Zoo below; from news to adoptions, births, conservation programs, your own encounter options, animal experiences, shows, events and more.

Orangutan Highlights

PalmOil Scan Mobile App

It’s easier than ever to make the best shopping choices for orangutans in the wild. Download the FREE PalmOil Scan App in the app stores now!

Orangutan Conservation & Palm Oil

Orangutan Encounter

Enjoy experiences of a lifetime, fantastic photo-ops and feeding or enrichment opportunities with your favorite! Meet an orangutan and learn all about their care and daily activities.

Adopt an Orangutan

Orangutan Event Schedule

11:15 a.m.
Orangutans are Awesome!
Primate World
Why do orangutans have such big hands? Watch them show off their incredible adaptations, and find out how you can help ensure they’re around for years to come by learning about palm oil and its impact on their habitat.

Daily
3:15 p.m.
Caring for Amazing Apes
Primate World
See how our primates and keepers work together through training, healthcare and enrichment—
all part of supporting great ape well-being.

Daily

Everything Orangutan

Celebrate Conservation! One Million Dollars Raised for Orangutans

May 30, 2025

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and its members and guests are celebrating a huge milestone: $1 million raised for orangutan conservation. Over the years, funds allocated from Zoo membership revenue and daytime admissions have supported a variety of efforts that benefit critically endangered wild orangutans in Southeast Asia. Wild orangutans’ biggest threat is habitat destruction. Efforts funded . . .

Sumagu and Kera, Sumatran Orangutans, Start Training for Their Next Adventure

March 25, 2025

Visitors to Primate World, at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, may soon notice two crates in the orangutan yard. These crates are part of the Zoo’s careful preparations to help two iconic Sumatran orangutans, 6-year-old Kera and her mother, 37-year-old Sumagu, get ready for their next chapter. The mother-daughter duo is scheduled to move to another AZA-accredited . . .

Conservation Brief

December 23, 2024

Quarters for Conservation Legacy Project: Palm Oil Conservation The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) recognized Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s collaborative palm oil conservation work at the RSPO annual conference in Bangkok last month. PalmOil Scan, a global mobile app that empowers consumers to choose companies that commit to using sustainable palm oil, won the RSPO . . .

Unforgettable Moments: Explore CMZoo’s Summer Animal Demonstrations

May 23, 2024

Adding animal demonstrations to your next Zoo day itinerary is one of the best ways to kick off the summer. Included with your regular daytime ticket, you’ll have access to multiple animal demonstrations throughout the day. From brachiating orangutans to a guinea pig parade, these demonstrations offer fun and educational experiences for our guests while . . .

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Helps Expand Wildlife-Saving Mobile Shopping App to 3rd Continent

November 13, 2023

PALMOIL SCAN APPTM NOW AVAILABLE FOR CONSCIENTIOUS CONSUMERS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND – Auckland Zoo and Zoos South Australia are the latest zoos joining Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo) on a worldwide effort, led by the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), to empower consumers to advocate for wildlife with their shopping choices. Smart . . .

Zoo Zzzs: How Animals Sleep

February 22, 2023

In Partnership with Children’s Hospital Colorado Some cuddle, some snore, some sleep on all fours. No matter how we do it, getting quality sleep is an important part of every healthy routine, whether you’re a human or an animal! Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s partners at Children’s Hospital Colorado recently shared advice for parents considering what kind . . .

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Helps Launch Global Mobile App to Empower Consumers to Save Wildlife and Wild Places

June 29, 2022

If you’ve ever wanted to save the rainforests from the comfort of your smartphone, now’s your chance. With a brand-new free global mobile app, everyone has the power to advocate with their shopping choices, and to make large companies listen to their demands for sustainably produced palm oil. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (CMZoo), under the direction . . .

Palm Oil: The Good, The Bad and The App That Can Help You Save Rainforests

September 30, 2021

With spooky season just around the corner, many people are stocking up on candy. It may come as a surprise, but the type of candy you purchase has an impact on wild orangutan habitats because it likely contains palm oil. Palm oil is a form of edible vegetable oil obtained from the fruit of the . . .

CMZoo Announces 2021 Member Vote Conservation Funding Recipients

April 23, 2021

Last month, members cast their votes to help the Zoo decide how to spend $75,000 of member conservation funds among five conservation projects vying for support. The three projects with the most votes will receive the full funding they requested. The number of votes received for the remaining two projects will help CMZoo decide how . . .

CMZoo Member Conservation Vote Presents Opportunities to Fund New Projects and Ongoing Partnerships

March 25, 2021

Every membership and every visit to the Zoo is conservation in action. Since 2015, including this year’s contributions, the Member Conservation Vote has provided $525,000 of membership revenue to support field conservation worldwide. Each year, a total of $100,000 of membership revenue is contributed to conservation in two ways: “Our members are passionate about conservation . . .

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Celebrates $3 Million Conservation Milestone

July 30, 2020

Every visit to the Zoo is conservation in action. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and its guests and members are celebrating a huge milestone, having raised $3 million since the Zoo’s Quarters for Conservation program launched in 2008. Quarters for Conservation, or Q4C, is the Zoo’s largest fundraiser for field conservation. It actively engages visitors and staff . . .

Great Apes, Like Human Primates, Participate in Preventive Health Care for Seasonal Illness

February 26, 2020

Seasonal illnesses, like influenza, can wreak havoc on humans this time of year. But, did you know great apes, like orangutans and gorillas, are also susceptible to the flu virus, which impacts an estimated 3 million humans annually? As Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s year-round sponsor, Children’s Hospital Colorado, provides tips for staying healthy during flu season, . . .

Meet & Feed An Animal

Once in a lifetime Opportunities Select your unique experience from the following options: Meet & Greets – unique animal interactions year-round, with any one of our smaller animals listed below. Animal Encounters – connect with amazing animals and their Keepers, plus options to feed many of the animals listed. V.I.P. Tours – behind-the-scenes exclusive animal . . .

Adopt Choices for Orangutans

Support your favorites with digital, traditional, gift package, and group adoptions. Gifting any adopt choice is available by simply completing the gift area at checkout.

Primate World

Enjoy the great apes face-to-face at indoor and outdoor glass viewing areas. Observe Western Lowland gorillas outdoors in a natural mountainside habitat, orangutans climbing in their playground showcasing the best view in town. Watch for the mesh training panel inside, where guests have an up-close opportunity to experience how keepers work with our orangutans and learn about important conservation work being done to save their wild counterparts.

Endangered Species at the Zoo

Are They in Danger of Extinction? Animals listed here may have a threatened or endangered conservation status with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

Orangutans & Palm Oil

Protect Wild Orangutans. Discover complex issues surrounding orangutans and palm oil, from endangered species to reforestation and biodiversity. Find responsible, sustainable conservation choices to support wildlife and wild places.

Adopt an Animal

Foster any animal and you’ll help Cheyenne Mountain Zoo continue to provide outstanding care. Whether given as a gift or used to celebrate a favorite species, symbolic adoptions come with a variety of benefits only adoptive parents can enjoy. Ways to adopt your favorites: Digital Adoption – ($35) choose any Zoo animal from the full . . .

Orangutan Encounter

Note: Weather Permitting. Maximum four(4) person limit per reservation for Orangutan Encounters.

Orangutan Art

Orangutans helping Orangutans. After realizing the potential of orangutans in zoos to contribute toward wild orangutan conservation, we decided in 2008 to see if our orangutans were interested. The orangutans choose whether or not they want to paint. The first painting sessions resulted in a few simple dots of paint on paper, and a lot . . .

2018 Conservation Highlights

December 27, 2018

Every day of the year, conservation is at the center of the inspiration and work at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. As 2018 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on some of CMZoo’s conservation contributions this year. We hope you’ll be inspired to take action, big or small, to join us in the important work of conserving . . .

It’s a Good Day for Orangutans and Other Endangered Wildlife

November 16, 2018

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was among those who voted “Yes” on passing the ratified Principles & Criteria (P&C) during 2018’s Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) conference in Malaysia this week. The new P&C is the result of months of extensive public and stakeholder consultation representing environmental NGOs, social NGOs, retailors, consumer goods manufacturers, palm oil traders, and oil palm growers.

CMZoo Orangutans Swing Into Newly Renovated Outdoor Yard

October 25, 2018

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo’s orangutans are having a swingin’-good time, thanks to a newly renovated exhibit. Several new features take them to heights they would frequent in the wild. The new structures and features, including new platforms, hammocks, tree structures, sway poles and fifty-foot-long ‘vines’ constructed of fire hose, overlook the city of Colorado Springs from . . .

Way Beyond Watching

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