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For the first time, an orangutan was observed and documented who used the leaves of a plant to heal a wound by applying certain substances directly to the lesion:this is the case of Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan who was caught while applying chewed plant residues with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties directly to the face, probably scarred during a clash with a rival.This is reported by the analyzes included in a peer-reviewed study published on Scientific Reports Of Nature.The research team, in 21 years of observations in the Gunung Leuser national park in Indonesia, had never seen other specimens self-medicating using this plant:"As far as we know, this is the first documented case of active wound treatment with a plant species with medical properties by a wild animal,” said senior study author Caroline Schuppli, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. The observations, as reported by research, began in 1994 and took place in th...