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07/19/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

We only THINK we’re smarter: Scientists shocked when orangutans were filmed making their OWN MEDICINE for sore limbs

Humans aren’t the only ones to use plants as medicine for aching joints — shocking evidence has emerged demonstrating that orangutans do this as well. Video footage from the Borneo Nature Foundation shows a female orangutan in the Sabangau Forest chewing on the leaves of a plant and working them into a soapy lather. She […]

01/17/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Orangutans discovered to be herbal medicine geniuses who manufacture their own healing ointments using forest plants

When we want a natural cure, many of us look to traditional medicine. While the remedies used by ancient people across the world often prove to be valuable tools for healing, there might be one potential source of herbal medicine that we are overlooking: animals. Orangutans have been observed in the wild creating their own […]

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