Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
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.
Always best to go to a scientific source with this sort of thing, because mainstream media outlets often get science details wrong. I'm still reading the Nature article, but that is where I would get the story from.
Very true. I updated the link in the post.
"Dr. Zaius, I presume."
Do you want humans?
This is how you get humans.
No no no - humans are closest to chimps, and if their current state is any indicator of the evolutionary path we broke off from, we descended from a bunch of clever but violent assholes, which says a lot about our current state
Orangutans are chill as fuck - get that evolutionary juice flowing and step aside to make way for Earth's real master race!
Maurice has entered the chat
https://www.the-scientist.com/study-suggests-dolphins-use-coral-mucus-as-medicine-70036
Don't we already have lots of evidence of animals using medicine? Sorry, I'm confused as to how this is a first? Is it just that it was a wound specifically?
It's the first evidence of an animal treating a wound with a medicinal plant. They need to make that clearer.
https://primatology.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/
Sumatran Orangutans also use hand tools while Orangutans from Borneo do not.
Please say it was coca
Cool cut the trees