Orangutan seen apparently treating wound

Rakus seen with a facial wound below his right eye two days before the orangutan administered wound self-treatment using a medicinal plant. — Reuters

Scientists have observed an orangutan applying medicinal herbs to a face wound in an apparently successful attempt to heal an injury, the first time such behaviour has been recorded.

Primates have previously been seen eating plants or rubbing them on themselves in behaviour scientists theorised was intended to ward off disease or discomfort.