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 ...
A new research paper ... just how resourceful one orangutan in Indonesia is. Scientists have been observing a male Sumatran ...
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 ...
A new research ... injured orangutans," study lead author Isabelle Laumer told STAT. "This is so special because so far, at least to our knowledge, there was no wild animal observed treating ...
For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.
Yet this was no ordinary medical treatment. The orangutan — dubbed "Rakus" by the scientists at Indonesia's Gunung Leuser ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the ...
Researchers say an orangutan in Indonesia appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a plant. It's the latest example of an ...