orangutan making a paste from leaves to treat a wound.

[Bear Wild]

Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

This article described how an Orangutan used a leaf of akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria) known for medicinal uses in humans to modify the leaves into a paste to apply to a wound. There is more we need to learn but it looks like the orangutan knew what type of leaf to use and to modify the leaves into a past to help heal a wound. Another example of how humans really are not that different than our other primate relatives.

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

This article described how an Orangutan used a leaf of akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria) known for medicinal uses in humans to modify the leaves into a paste to apply to a wound. There is more we need to learn but it looks like the orangutan knew what type of leaf to use and to modify the leaves into a past to help heal a wound. Another example of how humans really are not that different than our other primate relatives.

It is an interesting observation. I wonder how wide spread it is. If so, how is it communicated among orangutans. It could be very insightful as information to our own evolution and social development considering it is a member of another group of the "Great Apes".

 

[Dan From Smithville]

It's the orange hair isn't it.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's the orange hair isn't it.

One who wears it well.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

This article described how an Orangutan used a leaf of akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria) known for medicinal uses in humans to modify the leaves into a paste to apply to a wound. There is more we need to learn but it looks like the orangutan knew what type of leaf to use and to modify the leaves into a past to help heal a wound. Another example of how humans really are not that different than our other primate relatives.

Oh, I read about this today as well! Wow, just wow!

 

[The Hammer]

Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

This article described how an Orangutan used a leaf of akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria) known for medicinal uses in humans to modify the leaves into a paste to apply to a wound. There is more we need to learn but it looks like the orangutan knew what type of leaf to use and to modify the leaves into a past to help heal a wound. Another example of how humans really are not that different than our other primate relatives.

Yup, wonderful stuff. Orangs are a very smart ape.

 

[Secret Chief]

Yup, wonderful stuff. Orangs are a very smart ape.

Some orange bipeds are very stable geniuses.

 

[IndigoChild5559]

Some orange bipeds are very stable geniuses.

It's rude to talk about me like I'm not in the room!

 

[Hold]

Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

This article described how an Orangutan used a leaf of akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria) known for medicinal uses in humans to modify the leaves into a paste to apply to a wound. There is more we need to learn but it looks like the orangutan knew what type of leaf to use and to modify the leaves into a past to help heal a wound. Another example of how humans really are not that different than our other primate relatives.

Do the Orangs accept Medicare..?

 

[Augustus]

Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

This article described how an Orangutan used a leaf of akar kuning (Fibraurea tinctoria) known for medicinal uses in humans to modify the leaves into a paste to apply to a wound. There is more we need to learn but it looks like the orangutan knew what type of leaf to use and to modify the leaves into a past to help heal a wound. Another example of how humans really are not that different than our other primate relatives.

One of the most magical and also most depressing experiences of my life was going into the jungle to see orangutans in Sumatra.

Such amazing creatures, and you can’t help but see the commonalities between the species.

The drive there and back through hour after hour of palm oil plantations where rainforest had stood was profoundly melancholic though. Just an intense nostalgia.

I’m not sure they will survive much longer in the wild

 

[Bear Wild]

One of the most magical and also most depressing experiences of my life was going into the jungle to see orangutans in Sumatra.

Such amazing creatures, and you can’t help but see the commonalities between the species.

The drive there and back through hour after hour of palm oil plantations where rainforest had stood was profoundly melancholic though. Just an intense nostalgia.

I’m not sure they will survive much longer in the wild

I just keep hoping that the human world wakes up and understand the precious gifts that the rest of nature are. There is knowledge, wonder, mystery and so much more in these places that when gone will take away treasures that make us the richer for sharing this world with.

 

[Bear Wild]

Do the Orangs accept Medicare..?

No, I do not think so. What is really weird is they do not seem to have and insurance agents bothering them every day to sign up. Worse than that they do not even support the drug companies. What's up with that?

 

[Augustus]

I just keep hoping that the human world wakes up and understand the precious gifts that the rest of nature are. There is knowledge, wonder, mystery and so much more in these places that when gone will take away treasures that make us the richer for sharing this world with.

As someone who sees humans as a tragic species, I don’t hold out much hope unfortunately

 

[Augustus]

One of my friends told me she had a pet orangutan when she was young.

Her dad had “acquired” it through his job with the government agency in charge of the forests. Many orangutans are killed so their young can be taken as pets.

The pets may be confiscated by government officials, often ( but far from always) today they will be given to sanctuaries, but less so in the past.

Government officials may also buy them as pets as reflects their “status”.

Her dad had died when she was an adolescent. She remembered the pet fondly.

I never knew how to view this situation or respond to it.

 

[ChristineM]

I wrote this in Thursday on

Orangutan makes medicine

I watched a documentary many years ago about chimps hunting down a source of clay rich in kaolin when they had stomach problems.​

 

[Twilight Hue]

I wrote this in Thursday on

Orangutan makes medicine

I watched a documentary many years ago about chimps hunting down a source of clay rich in kaolin when they had stomach problems.​

Someday this planet is going to have to be shared with another sapient species.

It makes me wonder if the movie Planet of the Apes will become a reality.

 

[Hold]

Someday this planet is going to have to be shared with another sapient species.

It makes me wonder if the movie Planet of the Apes will become a reality.

I'm afraid we are far more advanced. Great ape species don't

slaughter animals for food, generally. Don't you know, we are not animals!

 

[ChristineM]

Someday this planet is going to have to be shared with another sapient species.

It makes me wonder if the movie Planet of the Apes will become a reality.

I watched another documentary saying that several animal species are not far (10000 years or less) from their stone age. Some are already using wooden tools

 

[ChristineM]

I'm afraid we are far more advanced. Great ape species don't

slaughter animals for food, generally. Don't you know, we are not animals!

Not that far.

And yes we are animals