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 ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...
(Por Douglas Main - Science Times) - En una reserva forestal de Indonesia, unos científicos observaron a un orangután macho salvaje frotándose repetidamente una herida facial con hojas ...
Animal psychologists have released incredible video from 214 cases of Capuchin monkeys using stone and stick tools to forage ...
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 ...
Por primera vez, los científicos observaron a un primate en libertad curándose una herida con una planta medicinal. Por Douglas Main En una reserva forestal de Indonesia, unos científicos ...
The findings represent the first report of wound treatment by a wild animal using a plant with known medicinal properties.
Un orangután de Sumatra, herido en la cara, se curó a si mismo aplicándose un ungüento que produjo al masticar una planta medicinal, en la primera observación de tal comportamiento en un gran simio en ...