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. Rakus, a male Sumatran ...

Scientists have documented a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. Reading time 3 minutes Humans aren’t the only primates with a ...

An orangutan has been seen treating a wound using a plant with known pain-relieving properties, marking the first known instance of a wild animal deliberately tending to its injuries with medicine.

In primates, the biggest, bossiest males usually get to father the most offspring; and for a long time it was thought that this rule applied to orangutans too. Male orangutans openly compete; and it's ...

Scientists saw an orangutan named Rakus chew up leaves from a medicinal plant that has been used to treat pain as well as inflammation in Southeast Asia, according to a new study in Scientific Reports ...

A Sumatran orangutan was seen using a medicinal plant to heal a facial wound at an Indonesian research site in a first step for non-humankind. The male primate applied a paste made from the poultice ...

For the first time ever, a wild male orangutan in Sumatra has been spotted tending to a wound on his face in an ingenious way. The technique worked, adding even more cred to the intelligence of this ...

A beloved ABQ BioPark Zoo orangutan has died. Tonka, 44, was the second-oldest male Sumatran orangutan in the United States, according to BioPark. He was euthanized Friday after dealing with advanced ...

WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian National Zoo is celebrating the birth of a critically endangered species. A male Borean orangutan was born at the zoo for the first time in 25 years, according to a press ...

Orangutan young highly depends on the social guidance of their mothers to know the safe food list for consumption.