Researchers say an orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant.
Jiggle the card reader? Check the security tape? The old school red flags might not work for latest skimmer devicesThis photo provided by the Suaq foundation shows Rakus, a wild male Sumatran orangutan in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, on Aug. 25, 2022, after his facial wound was barely visible. Two months earlier, researchers observed him apply chewed leaves from a plant, used throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation and to kill bacteria, to the wound.
The orangutan's intriguing behavior was recorded in 2022 by Ulil Azhari, a co-author and field researcher at the Suaq Project in Medan, Indonesia. Photographs show the animal’s wound closed within a month without any problems. "Very likely it’s self-medication,” said de Roode, adding that the orangutan applied the plant only to the wound and no other body part.
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