Ape Treating His Wound Using Medicinal Plant is a World...

[T.T.]

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

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 and pain-relieving properties commonly used in traditional medicine. He also covered the entire wound with the green plant mesh.

The closest relatives to humans, the great apes, are known to ingest specific plants to treat parasite infection and to rub plant material on their skin to treat sore muscles

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[spice]

Isn't that something. Just goes to show that they are more intelligent than we give them credit for.

[T.T.]

It certainly is spice, I was surprised as well.

[ZandraJoi]

Animals know what to use. It just may not have been recorded by humans. They are not swayed by Big Pharma & doctors!