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.
The reddish orange orangutan rubs the mashed up plant on its face. One could mistake this for mindless monkey business, but ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
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 ...