The male primate applied a paste made from the poultice plant on his cheek, eventually closing the large wound up, according ...

A wounded orangutan was seen self-medicating with a plant known to relieve pain. It's the first time an animal has been ...

An orangutan in Sumatra surprised scientists when he was seen treating an open wound on his cheek with a poultice made from a ...

A male Sumatran orangutan treated a facial wound with a climbing plant known to have anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving ...

The primate named Rakus chewed up yellow root and applied it to an open facial wound, closing the sore within days ...

As we stuff our Opinion section with commentaries of the day – our own editorial pages inside news pages crowded with noteworthy stories – the particulars about seed exchanges are often sidelined as ...

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 ...

Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant ...

It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told ...

Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a ...

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

Key Takeaways Primates can tend to their wounds using medicinal plants A male orangutan named Rakus chewed medicinal leaves ...