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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The study of our primate cousins has revealed many of them have remarkably advanced behaviors, but a new observation in Sumatra caught seasoned scientists by surprise. An orangutan known as Rakus ...
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 ...
Humans aren’t the only primates with a medicine cabinet, it seems. In a new paper published today, scientists document a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties ...
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to ...
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...