When the weather heats up, everyone is trying to find a way to cool down, whether they are human or animal. That includes zoo animals, such as this Bornean orangutan at the San Francisco Zoo. As this ...

Scientists saw an orangutan named Rakus chew up leaves from a medicinal plant that has been used to treat pain as well as inflammation in Southeast Asia, according to a new study in Scientific Reports ...

An orangutan has been seen applying the leaves of a plant commonly used in traditional medicine to a cut on its face, seemingly to hasten healing. It is the first case in the scientific record of a ...

For the first time, scientists observed a wild animal treating its own wound with a medicinal plant. A Sumatran orangutan, chewed up liana leaves and applied them to his wound. It healed in five days.