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 working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
Animal psychologists have released incredible video from 214 cases of Capuchin monkeys using stone and stick tools to forage ...
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 ...
For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
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 ...
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to ...
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 ...