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 in Indonesia that sustained a facial wound treated it himself, according to a study published in the journal ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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.
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to ...
Researchers documented the first observed case of a wild Sumatran orangutan actively treating a wound using a medicinal plant ...