Orang-Utan wurde erstmals bei Wildtieren bei der Behandlung von Wunden mit Heilkräutern gesehen

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/02/orangutan-seen-treating-wound-with-medicinal-herb-in-first-for-wild-animals-max-planck-institute-sumatra

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  2. Fine, i’ll go see Kingdom of the planes of the apes.

  3. Considering he did not dilute it to infinity while shaking the water with every dilution step to make it remember it is a medicine, this orangutan is already a better scientist than homeopaths.

  4. Humanity will probably understand and accept the sentience of Great Apes and their need to be protected just around the time of their extinction, which is very close.

  5. This is similar behaviour to our cattle who seek out willow trees to strip and chew the bark,which I believe to be a natural aspirin.

  6. i’ve read that bears will pack bad/lost teeth with willow bark.. also that they’ll go after asprin when they break into places.

  7. These gentle souls are the smartest and sweetest, and we are rapidly destroying their habitat.

  8. Why is this not more popular than sports/Hollywood?!?!?!

  11. Aren’t there also birds that eat a specific counteracting berry if they’ve accidentally eaten a poisonous spider?

  12. It’s not a first. By any stretch of the means. Interesting, but wildly exaggerated and sensational headline.

  14. Wait till they get smarter and ask for their own state and minimum wage.

  15. I like how they mention their use of sticks to retrieve incects and such yet that’s a habit of most great apes and even some monkey species.

    Yet orangutans have been documented using palm frawns as umbrellas, fishing with spears and blowing kisses. Their command of hierarchical order like this is what caused our tool use to explode. It’s only a matter of time (quite a bit but time nonetheless) that they’re making bigger moves.

  16. There is a saying in Indonesia that Orangutans can speak like humans but they don’t because then they will have to get jobs like humans. The children believe it , akin to Santa clause

  17. If they get a hold of spices, KFC could be in real danger!

  18. Didn’t expect to see news of orangutans healing themselves

  21. Literally from the linked article;

    >It is not the first time wild animals have been spotted self-medicating:

  22. Shit, they’ve used tools and are treating wounds with medicine. One more tech and they can advance to the Tool Age.

  23. That’s why they are always depicted as the smart ones in movies.

  24. My dogs est graim when he’s not good at stomach, so he could force vomits and be ok

  25. They are just pretending to be dumb so they have to pay taxes 😤

  27. Health care in America is expensive, does this Orangutan have any open appointments, I want to get a check up.

  29. And we destroy his World for fucking Palm Oil and corporate profits.. fucking disgraceful to not honour a sentient creature and respect their right to live as they always have free from genocial human greed

  30. Answer to our health care woes? Dr. Orangutan in the building!

  31. There’s a phenomenon called zoopharmaconosy where animals will eat things with no nutritional value because they potentially have some kind of medical benefit. One that everyone knows is cats or dogs eating grass to induce vomiting. There’s also a famous cave in Kenya (Mount Elgon) where elephants have mined and licked the salt for thousands of years.

    So what’s crazy is some very astute researchers who use this as a tool to target plants for potential future drugs.

    Correct me, but I remember from a college class being told this was how Taxol, which was deemed “a chemical only nature could form,” was discovered and eventually led to the development of paclitaxel which is a chemo drug. Apparently locals had noticed deer eating the bark of yew trees and so researchers decided to survey it for useful compounds.

    Theres tons of examples for this, from lambs eating high-tannin containing foods when parasitic load is high to chimps eating of Albizia grandibracteata leaves and bark roots for intestinal problems. Further analysis demonstrated cytotoxic compounds which could be used for GBM, colorectal cancer, among others.

    In a different life I would be a zoopharmacologist it sounds so cool

  35. Let’s face it, they’re now smarter than a lot of humans.

  36. I wonder if that means that trial and error learning is an evolutionary adaptation and if language, long lives, and long memories help expand its evolutionary value.

  37. this is nothing new, there is even a wild kratts episode about orangutan medicine.

  39. Orangutans are critically endangered. Their natural habitats are destroyed for palm oil crops.

    Avoid palm oil whenever you can. Help protect these brilliant creatures.

  41. Are we able (let’s ignore if we should, for a minute) to accelerate their progress by teaching them stuff?

  43. When they use herb its cool and revolutionary, when we use herb we stoners and degens

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