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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A male orangutan has scientists going bananas -- 'cause the primate treated his face wound with a medicinal plant ... which seems ...
An ape has been seen treating a wound using a medicinal plant for the first time. In a world first, the wild male Sumatran ...
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did ...
The findings represent the first report of wound treatment by a wild animal using a plant with known medicinal properties.