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 ...
An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally ...
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 ...
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 ...
The reddish orange orangutan rubs the mashed up plant ... "This possibly innovative behavior presents the first ...
An orangutan in Indonesia that sustained a facial wound treated it himself, according to a study published in the journal ...
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 ...
Jakarta. An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals ...
First evidence for medical wound treatment in a wild animal – wild orangutan treats wound with healing plant and uses it as ...
Animal psychologists have released incredible video from 214 cases of Capuchin monkeys using stone and stick tools to forage ...