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 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 ...
A new research paper ... just how resourceful one orangutan in Indonesia is. Scientists have been observing a male Sumatran ...
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. But what happened over ...
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat ...
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 ...
(CNN) — Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
which left him with a particularly bad face wound in the form of a bad gash near his right eye.Officials followed Rakus around for the next few days and observed some bizarre behavior for an ape ...
In a new paper ... how a male orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in traditional medicine and applied them to a wound ...