Orangutans seen treating a wound with a medicinal plant for first time
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We haven't been able to take payment You must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription. Act now to keep your subscription We've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account or by clicking update payment details to keep your subscription. Your subscription is due to terminate We've tried to contact you several times as we haven't been able to take payment. You must update your payment details via My Account, otherwise your subscription will terminate. Saturday May 18 2024 No one saw what caused the nasty gash on Rakus's face. Although, given he was a newly matured male orangutan, primatologists can hazard a good guess: he had been fighting. What they did see was what happened next. Rakus, who lives in the Sumatran jungle, started eating a plant that orangutans almost never eat. He kept chewing a liana plant methodically, taking the juice from his mouth and applying it to the deep wound. Then, he packed the wound with chewed leaves. "It was almost like a plaster," said Isabelle Laumer, from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Germany. And, just like a plaster, it seemed to help it heal. After just a few days, to the scientists' surprise, the wound had closed