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 ...
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue ...
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the ...
Yet this was no ordinary medical treatment. The orangutan — dubbed "Rakus" by the scientists at Indonesia's Gunung Leuser ...
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 medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented.
Researchers documented the first observed case of a wild Sumatran orangutan actively treating a wound using a medicinal plant ...
The reddish orange orangutan rubs the mashed up plant on its face. One could mistake this for mindless monkey business, but it is quite the opposite: The wild Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii ...