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 orangutan named Rakus in Indonesia's Gunung Leuser National Park since 2009.
A new research paper published in Nature journal shows just how resourceful one orangutan in Indonesia ... the next few weeks surprised them; they observed him treating his wounds as they ...
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
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 ...
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 ...
People have been using medicinal plants for healing since ancient times. The knowledge of which plants and herbs to use has ...