Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
(www.nature.com)
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from Maven@lemmy.zip to world@lemmy.world on 02 May 2024 18:34
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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.
www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01289-w
Very true. I updated the link in the post.
Do you want humans?
This is how you get humans.
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!
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"Dr. Zaius, I presume."
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Sumatran Orangutans also use hand tools while Orangutans from Borneo do not.
Cool cut the trees
Please say it was coca
the-scientist.com/study-suggests-dolphins-use-cor…
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?
It’s the first evidence of an animal treating a wound with a medicinal plant. They need to make that clearer.