Ronald Alexander @djchefron

Not incredible because they are intelligent but still it's cool as hell

Scientists observed Rakus, the orangutang pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation.

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 hande..

07:24 PM - May 02, 2024