Adult flanged male orangutan Rakus with a facial wound two days before applying plant mesh to the wound. Armas / Suaq Project
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Biologists have observed a Sumatran male orangutan using the sap and chewed leaves of a medicinal plant to treat an open wound on his face.
While there has been previous evidence of self-medication behaviors in animals, it is the first known incident of an animal in the wild treating a wound with a “biologically active substance,” a press release from the…
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