Rakus feeding on Fibraurea tinctoria leaves. This photo was taken on June 26, the day after Rakus applied the plant leaves to the wound. Rakus feeding on Fibraurea tinctoria leaves. This photo was ...

With their bright eyes and prominent beards and mustaches, it’s easy to see how orangutans got their name; “orang” is Malay for person, while “hutan” means forest. Their similarity to ...

How the great ape first learned to use the plant is still unclear. Deposit Photos Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes ...

The ‘wounds bed’ contains good King Henry (Chenopodium bonus-henricus), self-heal (Prunella vulgaris), saw-wort (Serratula tinctoria) and sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum), a particularly ...

Three days after the injury Rakus selectively ripped off leaves of a liana with the common name Akar Kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria), chewed on them, and then repeatedly applied the resulting juice ...

Rakus also ate the plant, an evergreen vine commonly called Akar Kuning - scientific name Fibraurea tinctoria, added Laumer, lead author of the study published in the journal Scientific Reports ...

The team then saw Rakus chewing the leaves of a plant with the scientific name Fibraurea tinctoria “without swallowing them and using his fingers to apply the plant juice from his mouth directly”.

A Sumatran orangutan called Rakus was seen applying the chewed leaves of akar kuning, Fibraurea tinctoria, a liana with known antibacterial properties, to a facial wound. This raises the possibility ...

Continue reading The plant that Rakus chewed into a pulp is a species called Fibraurea tinctoria, also known as Akar Kuning, Akar Palo, and Yellow Root. Due to its antibacterial, anti-inflammatory ...