First aid in the animal world

[Suffolkrafter]

Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

www.bbc.co.uk

Incredible. This inspires me to revisit medicinal plants.

 

[Jared]

Full paper

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan - Scientific Reports

Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such behaviors as whole leaf swallowing, bitter pith chewing, and fur rubbing in African great apes, orangutans, white...

www.nature.com

 

[Broch]

I wonder if he does surgeries - I'd get more sense out of him than our local surgery

 

[Suffolkrafter]

Full paper

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan - Scientific Reports

Although self-medication in non-human animals is often difficult to document systematically due to the difficulty of predicting its occurrence, there is widespread evidence of such behaviors as whole leaf swallowing, bitter pith chewing, and fur rubbing in African great apes, orangutans, white...

www.nature.com

Thanks for finding that Jared I will have a read

 

[Suffolkrafter]

I wonder if he does surgeries - I'd get more sense out of him than our local surgery

You're doing well if you can even contact them!

 

[forrestdweller]

Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

www.bbc.co.uk

Incredible. This inspires me to revisit medicinal plants.

somehow i'm not surprised to read this... shame their natural habitat is disappearing (due to logging and palm oil plantations ), "orang utan" translates as forest dweller" in english which also happens to be the translation for my name...

 

[The Frightful]

Apologies matey, but now visualising you as a 400lb ginger bloke with cheekbones CIllian Murphy would be jealous of !