For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers observed a wild orangutan in Sumatra treating a facial wound with a plant known for its healing properties, marking the first ...

Biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia observed a large male orangutan self-medicating—using a paste of chewed up plants ...

Scientists once thought that all animal behavior was instinctual, but now know that many animals — particularly social animals — are able to think and to learn, and to display culturally learned ...

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School is still in session for groups of orphaned orangutans across Indonesia. The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation runs several orangutan rehabilitation centers throughout the country that ...

Orangutan mothers will teach their young to forage for food — then cut them off when they are old enough to know better, new research shows. By Nicholas Bakalar Young orangutans seem much like human ...

Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max ...

Des Moines, Iowa – February 23, 2009 – Great Ape Trust of Iowa scientist Dr. Serge Wich and three other internationally respected orangutan experts have edited a book set for release in the United ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters Life!) - Bonnie is like any other 32-year-old female orangutan in many ways. She's curious, gregarious, and likes nothing better than scouring her fellow orangutans for dead skin ...