"I have lost my anger. Our plight was inevitable. We are defenseless against ourselves. It is a classic Greek tragedy, played ...

A male orangutan was spotted chewing up antibacterial and pain-relieving plants and applying the paste to a wound on his ...

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say ...

Areas with high densities of great apes—including gorillas, bonobos, and chimpanzees—significantly overlap with the locations of African mines for these minerals, according to a new paper in ...

In a new paper, researchers describe how a male orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in traditional medicine and ...

Observers have documented multiple animal species using plants for self-medicinal purposes, such as great apes eating plants ...

Such behavior may come from a common ancestor of humans and great apes. For the first time in history, scientists observed a ...

Dutch biologist Erik Meijaard isn’t afraid to ruffle feathers. In the past 15 years, he’s published some 120 opinion pieces in Indonesian newspapers, many of them critical about the state… ...

Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants.

Freedom for Great Apes (FGA) is delighted to extend a warm invitation to all and chimpanzee enthusiasts for a unique ...

One-third of Africa’s population of great apes are at risk from a boom in mining-related habitat destruction in the continent, a new study has found. The impact of mining on these iconic ...

Mining companies hunting critical minerals could wipe out more than a third of Africa’s remaining great apes, a new study has found. © Associated Press/Schalk van ...