Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
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Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#2I know I'm humanizing Rakus here but I'd like to think that, when he kisses the tree towards the end of the video, he does so out of gratitude for helping him. :-)
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#3It would be nice if they could work out what this "medicinal" tree is and start mass-producing this paste because that looks like some serious healing going on there! ... or perhaps orangutans are just way better at this sort of thing that human are? I recently tripped up running and had a much smaller cut (compared to the apparent missing-chunk-of-flesh this orangutan had) on my knee that took several weeks to fully heal.
I'd pay for this paste!
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#4It would be nice if they could work out what this "medicinal" tree is and start mass-producing this paste because that looks like some serious healing going on there! ... or perhaps orangutans are just way better at this sort of thing that human are? I recently tripped up running and had a much smaller cut (compared to the apparent missing-chunk-of-flesh this orangutan had) on my knee that took several weeks to fully…
It is already known -
> The team then saw Rakus chewing the stem and leaves of plant called Akar Kuning - an anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial plant that is also used locally to treat malaria and diabetes.
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#5Even the animals know that plants are medicine. Such a wierd thing that lebel these as alternative.
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#6That's pretty cool! Perhaps genetic or innate memory is how he knew what to do? Sort of like dogs eating grass when they are sick?
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#7That's pretty cool! Perhaps genetic or innate memory is how he knew what to do? Sort of like dogs eating grass when they are sick?
More likely it's something parents or friends taught him.
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#8Even the animals know that plants are medicine. Such a wierd thing that lebel these as alternative.
I don't think people label plants as inherently alternative medicine. Plenty of non-alternative (aka regular) medicine was originally derived from plants (e.g. aspirin).
Things typically become labeled "medicine" when they've been work and have been tested. "Alternative" kind of works like a logical `not`, so applying de Morgan's law that implies that alternative medicine either has not been tested or doesn't work.
Obviously that's a kind of reductive take, but I don't think it's fair to say that scientists label all things from "plants" as "alternative".
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#9That's pretty cool! Perhaps genetic or innate memory is how he knew what to do? Sort of like dogs eating grass when they are sick?
Monkey see, monkey do, and orangutan think and understand. orangutan are quite smart and can associate ideas, communicate and share knowledge. They are considered as one of the most intelligent primate.
A shame they're critically endangered.
Re: Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
#10Even the animals know that plants are medicine. Such a wierd thing that lebel these as alternative.
I don't think people label plants as inherently alternative medicine. Plenty of non-alternative (aka regular) medicine was originally derived from plants (e.g. aspirin). Things typically become labeled "medicine" when they've been work and have been tested. "Alternative" kind of works like a logical `not`, so applying de Morgan's law that implies that alternative medicine either has not been tested or doesn't work. O…
I like throwing those types o. Their ear by asking them if they want alternative medicine or actual medicine.