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 male orangutan was spotted chewing up antibacterial and pain-relieving plants and applying the paste to a wound on his cheek. Scientists have spotted an orangutan using medicinal plants to tend to ...
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue ...
Scientists have been observing a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus in Indonesia's Gunung Leuser National Park since 2009. In June 2022, they noticed he had a facial wound.
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
Dr Isabelle Laumer and her colleagues saw the astonishing behaviour while observing orangutans in the protected Suaq ...
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 ...
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
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 ...