Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant

 

Rakus the orangutan with an injury on his face, before he applied leaves to the wound

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Darwinist say that the orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant. That is not true, because some ants have also been treating their wounds with plants.

Well, this is what science says about orangutans at least one of them, they say that a male Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) called Rakus, living in Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia has done that.

“There have been several previous reports of great apes attempting to self-medicate in other ways. Gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos, for example, sometimes swallow whole leaves from Aspilia plants to get rid of intestinal parasites.”

This is a way that animals have used intelligent design to heal them.  

Source:

Chen Ly, 2024. Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant | New Scientist 2 May