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Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first (www.nature.com)

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

Always best to go to a scientific source with this sort of thing, because mainstream media outlets often get science details wrong. I'm still reading the Nature article, but that is where I would get the story from.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01289-w

[-] Maven@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 months ago

Very true. I updated the link in the post.

[-] Gikiski@fedia.io 19 points 6 months ago

"Dr. Zaius, I presume."

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago

Do you want humans?

This is how you get humans.

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

No no no - humans are closest to chimps, and if their current state is any indicator of the evolutionary path we broke off from, we descended from a bunch of clever but violent assholes, which says a lot about our current state

Orangutans are chill as fuck - get that evolutionary juice flowing and step aside to make way for Earth's real master race!

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

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[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

https://www.the-scientist.com/study-suggests-dolphins-use-coral-mucus-as-medicine-70036

Don't we already have lots of evidence of animals using medicine? Sorry, I'm confused as to how this is a first? Is it just that it was a wound specifically?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

It's the first evidence of an animal treating a wound with a medicinal plant. They need to make that clearer.

[-] yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

https://primatology.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/

Sumatran Orangutans also use hand tools while Orangutans from Borneo do not.

[-] doublejay1999@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Please say it was coca

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