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 ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally ...
For the first time ever, a wild male orangutan in Sumatra has been spotted tending to a wound on his face in an ingenious way ...
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 being ...
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to ...
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 ...
Yet this was no ordinary medical treatment. The orangutan — dubbed "Rakus" by the scientists at Indonesia's Gunung Leuser ...
Animal psychologists have released incredible video from 214 cases of Capuchin monkeys using stone and stick tools to forage ...
An orangutan in Indonesia that sustained a facial wound treated it himself, according to a study published in the journal ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON: An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some ...