Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to its own wounds. A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus was observed by German and Indonesian scientists chewing up the leaves ...
Scientists have been observing a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus in Indonesia's Gunung Leuser National Park since 2009. In June 2022, they noticed he had a facial wound.
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently ...
Biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia observed a large male orangutan self-medicating—using a paste of chewed up ...
A Sumatran orangutan has been seen treating a facial wound with a plant with known medicinal properties for the first time. In a new paper published in Nature, scientists document their observation of ...
How the great ape first learned to use the plant is still unclear. Deposit Photos Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes ...
A male orangutan has scientists going bananas -- 'cause the primate treated his face wound with a medicinal plant ... which seems to have been intentional, a first for scientists. A male orangutan has ...
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A male orangutan was spotted chewing up antibacterial and pain-relieving plants and applying the paste to a wound on his cheek. Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to ...