An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant — the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists ...

Source: Safruddin, Armas, Ulil Azhari, Adami, used with permission. The wild Sumatran orangutans of the Suaq Balimbing research area in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, have been the subjects ...

Scientists are uncovering the healing power of plants with help from an unlikely source: chimpanzees. For years, researchers at the University of Oxford have taken samples of plants favored by injured ...

When a wild orangutan in Indonesia suffered a painful wound to his cheek, he did something that stunned researchers: He chewed plant leaves known to have pain-relieving and healing properties, rubbed ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant – the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, ...

Medicinal plants grow wild all around us, We plant them in gardens and health store shelves are filled with them but what are the benefits of wild herbs and how can they be easily incorporated into ...

Houma-native and herbalist Corinne Martin is releasing a new book with a unique look into Louisiana’s herbal landscape and ...

There are many wild edible and medicinal plants throughout Western New York, such as this Purple Coneflower. Photo by Jonathan Townsend I have always been fascinated by the topic of wild edible and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to ...