An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...

An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...

The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply ... “This is the first time that we have observed a wild animal applying a quite potent medicinal plant directly to a wound,” said ...

This story appears in the October/November 2016 issue of Nat Geo WILD magazine. Biological anthropologist Cheryl Knott and photojournalist Tim Laman have dedicated their lives to the orangutans of ...

These are tough times for the orangutan. Not only does the tree-dwelling primate live on just two islands in south east Asia, they are also in line for extinction in the wild if the destruction of ...