An orangutan in a protected Indonesian rainforest site who sustained a facial wound treated the injury himself, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports earlier this month. The ...
WASHINGTON (AP) – 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, ...
Scientists saw an orangutan named Rakus chew up leaves from a medicinal plant that has been used to treat pain as well as inflammation in Southeast Asia, according to a new study in Scientific Reports ...