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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented. Rakus, a male ...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did ...
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Researchers in Sumatra observed an orangutan treat his own facial wound by improvising a topical paste.
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 ...
An ape has been seen treating a wound using a medicinal plant for the first time. In a world first, the wild male Sumatran orangutan known as Rakus was observed applying chewed leaves from Akar ...
Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to ...