For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.

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 ...

(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 site, ...

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 ...

When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed ...

An orangutan named Rakus hit a rough patch in the summer of 2022. Researchers heard a fight between male orangutans in the treetops of a rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia; a day later, they spotted ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A beloved and internationally known 32-year-old Sumatran orangutan was humanely euthanized surrounded by the people who loved him most at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance on Monday ...

A facial wound is seen June 23, 2022, on Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant, left, and on ...

Taxonomy, geographic variation, and population genetics of Bornean and Sumatran orangutans / Benoît Goossens ... [et al.] -- The functional significance of variation in jaw form in orangutans / Andrea ...

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 reported ...

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. The technique worked, adding even more cred to the intelligence of this ...