Orangutan is first non-human seen treating wounds with medicinal plant🦧🌿 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Germany noticed a fresh gash on the cheek of a male Sumatran orangutan called Rakus, living in Gunung Leuser National Park in Indonesia. After several days, the team spotted Rakus chewing on the stem and leaves of an evergreen climbing plant commonly used in traditional medicine, and smearing the chewed-up plant across his open wound, seemingly to hasten the hea