Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a ...
A Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was seen using a medicinal plan to heal a facial wound at an Indonesian research site.
The plants are used in traditional medicine to treat various diseases, such as malaria, dysentery and diabetes, said Laumer, ...
such as dysentery, diabetes and malaria”. It remains unclear whether Rakus figured the process out for himself or learned it ...
Rakus then covered the wound with the chewed up leaves, which are used in traditional medicine to treat illnesses like ...
A male orangutan was spotted chewing up antibacterial and pain-relieving plants and applying the paste to a wound on his ...
More than 80 people, most of them Rohingyas living in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), died of dysentery in ...
In a new paper, researchers describe how a male orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in traditional medicine and ...
An orangutan has been spotted treating an open wound with a medicinal plant, the first time the behaviour has been seen in ...
The findings represent the first report of wound treatment by a wild animal using a plant with known medicinal properties.