Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine
It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.
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Incredible. This inspires me to revisit medicinal plants.
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Incredible. This inspires me to revisit medicinal plants.
Full paper
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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...
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I wonder if he does surgeries - I'd get more sense out of him than our local surgery 
Thanks for finding that Jared I will have a readFull 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...
You're doing well if you can even contact them!I wonder if he does surgeries - I'd get more sense out of him than our local surgery
somehow i'm not surprised to read this... shame their natural habitat is disappearing (due to logging and palm oil plantationsWounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine
It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.
Incredible. This inspires me to revisit medicinal plants.
), "orang utan" translates as forest dweller" in english which also happens to be the translation for my name...
Apologies matey, but now visualising you as a 400lb ginger bloke with cheekbones CIllian Murphy would be jealous of !
