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 ...
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal ...
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue ...
An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally ...
It's the first time this behavior was observed in the animal world. By Andrew Paul | Published May 2, 2024 11:00 AM EDT Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self ...
An orangutan in Indonesia that sustained a facial wound treated it himself, according to a study published in the journal ...
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 ...
An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...
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.