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 ...
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A male orangutan was spotted chewing up antibacterial and pain-relieving plants and applying the paste to a wound on his cheek. Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to ...
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
Scientists have been observing a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus in Indonesia's Gunung Leuser National Park since 2009. In June 2022, they noticed he had a facial wound.
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 in ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
An orangutan in Indonesia that sustained a facial wound treated it himself, according to a study published in the journal ...
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 ...
People have been using medicinal plants for healing since ancient times. The knowledge of which plants and herbs to use has ...
This combination of photos provided by the Suaq foundation shows a facial wound on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in ...