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Headline : A Wild Orangutan Used a Medicinal Plant to Treat a Wound, Scientists Say

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(WASHINGTON) โ€” An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plantโ€” the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.

Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation. The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek. Afterward, he pressed the chewed plant to cover the open wound like a makeshift bandage, according to aย new study in Scientific Reports.

Previous research has documented several species of great apes foraging for medicines in forests to heal themselves, but scientists hadn't yet seen an animal treat itself in this way.

โ€œThis is the first time that we have observed a wild animal applying a quite potent medicinal plant directly to a wound,โ€ said co-author Isabelle Laumer, a biologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany.

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