Ape Treating His Wound Using Medicinal Plant is a World First for a Wild Animal

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Although there are some animal self-medication behaviors, it is not known that animals heal their wounds using plants. Biologists in Indonesia have now observed this behavior in a male Sumatran Orangutan. After suffering a facial injury, he ate sap from a climbing tree with anti-inflammatory […] and applied it repeatedly.
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