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 ...
Says animal physiologist and study co-author Andreas Nieder: “When faced with a set of three objects and asked, ‘How many?’ ...
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 ...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did ...
The study of our primate cousins has revealed many of them have remarkably advanced behaviors, but a new observation in Sumatra caught seasoned scientists by surprise. An orangutan known as Rakus ...
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 ...
On Sunday June 2 at 11am the name of Prague Zoo’s new baby male Sumatran orangutan which had been voted for by the public was revealed. In what was described as a baptism ceremony, the one-month-old ...
Researchers observed a wild orangutan in Sumatra treating a facial wound with a plant known for its healing properties, marking the first documented case of such behavior in a wild animal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...
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 ...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him.