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 ...
Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...
As our closest non-human relatives, primates remain some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. And they continue ...
Self-medicating in animals has been reported before, but scientists noted something particularly special when they observed a ...
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.
For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.
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 ...
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 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 ...
The findings represent the first report of wound treatment by a wild animal using a plant with known medicinal properties.