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 ...
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally ...
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 ...
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to ...
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 ...
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 ...