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 ...
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 ...
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.
When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did ...
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The findings represent the first report of wound treatment by a wild animal using a plant with known medicinal properties.
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 ...