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 of a ...
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue ...
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...
An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally ...
For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
The reddish orange orangutan rubs the mashed up plant on its face. One could mistake this for mindless monkey business, but ...
Researchers say an orangutan in Indonesia appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a plant. It's the latest example of an ...
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 plants ...
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue to surprise science with their knowledge. A new research paper published ...