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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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 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.
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did ...
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 ...
An ape has been seen treating a wound using a medicinal plant for the first time. In a world first, the wild male Sumatran ...
A Sumatran orangutan has been seen treating a facial wound with a plant with known medicinal properties for the first time.
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants that treat parasitic infections or rubbing vegetation on sore muscles.
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to ...