persagen,
@persagen@mastodon.social avatar

Wild orangutan treats wound with pain-relieving plant
A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/05/240502113715.htm

Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-58988-7

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/orangutan-observed-treating-wound-using-medicinal-plant-in-world-first-1.6870817
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/orangutan-observed-treating-wound-using-medicinal-plant-in-world-first-1.6870817

PeterLG,
@PeterLG@theblower.au avatar

@persagen

Knew what plant to use, how to use it, and when to use it. This outcome involved another ape teaching this ape, and this ape learning the lessons.

Yep. That's intelligence.

Now, could we please stop killing our distant cousins?

Ahlberg,
@Ahlberg@eliitin-some.fi avatar
elala,
@elala@nrw.social avatar

@Ahlberg
AltText:
Two years ago CNN released a photo taken by the photographer Anil Prabhakar in the forest in Indonesia. The image shows an organgutan, currently under threat of extinction, while stretching out his hand to help a geologist who fell into a mud pool during his search. When the photographer uploaded the photo, he wrote this as a caption: "In a time when the concept of humanity dies, animals lead us to the principles of humanity."

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