Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb

The ape applied sap and leaves to open cut after suspected fight with another male.

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2024 05 02T172708Z 924992269 RC2HI7AJ6VEV RTRMADP 3 SCIENCE ORANGUTAN — A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus is seen two months after wound self-treatment using a medicinal plant in the Suaq Balimbing research site, a protected rainforest area in Indonesia, with the facial wound below the right eye barely visible anymore, in this handout picture taken August 25, 2022. Safruddin/Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES MANDATORY CREDIT

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