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 ...

May 2 (Reuters) - In June 2022, a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing research ...

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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 ...

People have tapped plants’ medicinal properties for millennia. But they may not be the only primates to do so. In the first reported case of a wild animal actively applying a medically-active plant to ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.