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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.
The post Ape Treating Wound Using Medicinal Plant Is a World First for a Wild Animal first appeared on Good News Network.

“}]] Although there is evidence for some self-medicating behaviors in animals, it has never been known that they use healing plants to heal their wounds. This has been observed in a male Sumatran orangutan by biologists in Indonesia. He ate and applied sap from a climbing plant with anti-inflammatory ingredients after suffering a physical wound.
A World First for a Wild Animal, Using a Medicinal Plant, appeared initially on Good News Network. 

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