Biologists have observed a Sumatran male orangutan using the sap and chewed leaves of a medicinal plant to treat an open ...

a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park on June 23, 2022, two days before he applied chewed leaves from a medicinal plant (L), and on Aug. 25, 2022, after his facial wound ...

Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behavior has been documented. Rakus, a male ...

A Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia ... treating an injury with a medicinal plant. After researchers saw Rakus applying the plant poultice to his face, the wound closed up and healed in a month.

a potent medicinal plant that isn't a part of an orangutan's regular diet. The researchers observed him chewing the leaves and then applying them to his wound with his finger. "This was ...

A Sumatran orangutan ... to heal a large wound on his cheek, say scientists. It is the first time a creature in the wild has been recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant.