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 ...
Animal psychologists have released incredible video from 214 cases of Capuchin monkeys using stone and stick tools to forage ...
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...
An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally ...
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 ...
Sumatran ape applied sap and leaves to open cut after suspected fight with another male, say scientists ...
Dr Isabelle Laumer and her colleagues saw the astonishing behaviour while observing orangutans in the protected Suaq ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
Yet this was no ordinary medical treatment. The orangutan — dubbed "Rakus" by the scientists at Indonesia's Gunung Leuser ...