An orangutan named Rakus has a pretty solid grasp of first-aid. He's the first orangutan ever observed to intentionally ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
An orangutan in Indonesia that sustained a facial wound treated it himself, according to a study published in the journal ...
Yet this was no ordinary medical treatment. The orangutan — dubbed "Rakus" by the scientists at Indonesia's Gunung Leuser ...
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 ...
(CNN) — Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented.
Researchers documented the first observed case of a wild Sumatran orangutan actively treating a wound using a medicinal plant ...
A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and ...
“The behavior of Rakus appeared to be intentional as he selectively treated his facial wound on his right flange, and no other body parts, with the plant juice,” said Isabelle Laumer, first ...
WASHINGTON (AP) – 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 reddish orange orangutan rubs the mashed up plant on its face. One could mistake this for mindless monkey business, but it is quite the opposite: The wild Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii ...