The male primate applied a paste made from the poultice plant on his cheek, eventually closing the large wound up, according ...
Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant ...
For the first time ever, a wild male orangutan in Sumatra has been spotted tending to a wound on his face in an ingenious way ...
An orangutan in Sumatra surprised scientists when he was seen treating an open wound on his cheek with a poultice made from a ...
It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told ...
An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the ...
A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia has self-medicated using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek, say ...
Doctors dread the chronic external ulcers which sometimes accompanydiseases like diabetes or varicose veins, when blood circulation ispoor. They know that the feeble blood supply will probably ...
The primate named Rakus chewed up yellow root and applied it to an open facial wound, closing the sore within days ...
A male Sumatran orangutan treated a facial wound with a climbing plant known to have anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving ...
Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a ...
The male primate applied a paste made from the poultice plant on his cheek, eventually closing the large wound up, according ...