according to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports. This marks the first time that wound-treating behavior has been seen in orangutans and the first time that any animal has been observed ...
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 ... injured orangutans," study lead author Isabelle Laumer told STAT. "This is so special because so far, at least to our knowledge, there was no wild animal observed treating ...
Rakus the orangutan seems to have a surprisingly decent grasp on first-aid. He lives in Gunung Leuser National Park in South Aceh, Indonesia, where scientists from the Institute of Animal Behavior ...
A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently ...
enabling them to deceive one another to sound like a larger ape. Scientists argue that these behaviors make them one of the most self-aware wild animals that have ever been observed. Orangutans ...
They've been observed using tools, communicating vocally, and engaging in even more complex behaviors like calculated reciprocity, which involves aiding another orangutan with the expectation of ...
But a wild orangutan recently displayed ... during or after puberty to establish new homes. So it’s also possible Rakus may have learned this behavior from his relatives, but given observers ...