Non-human 'doctor': In a first, male Sumatran orangutan 'Rakus' recorded using medicinal plant to heal his wound
India, May 3 -- Finding shows medical wound treatment may have possibly arisen in a common ancestor shared by humans andgreat apes
A male orangutan, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has been recorded on video by German and Indonesian scientists using a medicinal plant to treat a wound on his face.
The individual - named 'Rakus' - resides in Suaq Balimbing, a protected rainforest area home to approximately 150 critically endangered Sumatran orangutans.
Cognitive and evolutionary biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) in Konstanz, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia conducted a study. It was led by Caroline Schuppli and Isabelle Laumer.
"During daily observations of the orangutans, we noticed th...
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