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 ...
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.
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 ...
How the great ape first learned to use the plant is still unclear. Deposit Photos Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes ...
The term zoopharmacognosy – “animal medicine knowledge” – was invented in 1987.
An orangutan in a protected Indonesian rainforest site who sustained a facial wound treated the injury himself, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports earlier this month.
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue to surprise science with their knowledge. A new research paper published ...
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants that treat parasitic infections or rubbing vegetation on sore muscles.