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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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, ...

For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.

For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties. By Douglas Main Scientists observed a wild male orangutan repeatedly rubbing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the ...

A Bornean orangutan has been filmed eating a slow loris—the first time this behavior has been seen in this population of orangutans. Orangutan diets are composed primarily of fruit. they also eat ...

Armas / Suaq Project When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and ...

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In primates, the biggest, bossiest males usually get to father the most offspring; and for a long time it was thought that this rule applied to orangutans too. Male orangutans openly compete; and it's ...