Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants. Now, biologists in Indonesia have observed this in a male Sumatran orangutan. After sustaining a facial wound, he ate and repeatedly applied sap from a climbing plant with anti-inflammatory […]

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