Orangutan seen “self-medicating” in world first | BBC Global
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- Scientists have observed a never-before-seen behaviour by a wild orangutan.
Rakus, a Sumatran orangutan in Indonesia, was seen self-medicating using a paste made from plants to heal a large wound on his cheek.
Primatologist Dr Isabelle Laumer, the lead author of the research, provides insights into this unprecedented event.
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Homie is one word away from paying taxes
In Indonesia, they say Orangutans CAN talk, they just don't do it around Humans because if we heard them, we'd give them jobs.
You really think he's going to jump from being an orangutan to a white person overnight? I don't think so I think there's going to be a few thousand years of him not paying taxes or registering his guns before he is fully evolved
Bruh the orangutan in kingdom of the planet of the apes is also named Raka
@@Voodoomariaif they really did it would've been found out by now with all the spying and hidden devices we use
Hahahaha 🤣 Mafia will Steuer.
The moment he says "NOOOO" we're screwed
Wrong kind of Ape man lol
I did! I understood that reference!
@@boglenight1551😂
Apes together strong
@@boglenight1551literally everybody watching videos about apes understand the reference
I seen him rolling a blunt too
😭😭😭😭
i saw him in kensington walkin around like a zombie
3:02 before the blunt
3:06 after taking three tokes
Maurice I see you
Maurice is outdated now lol
@@lameguy9862 noooo he isnt hes still alive kingdom was 300 years later not now
@@lameguy9862*Maurice is Goated now lol
@@realbosstakeathe orangutan in kingdom is named raka and this one is named rakas lmao???
We're starting to learn just how much the other inhabitants of our planet actually know. From these lovely fellow primates to corvids to octopuses, all around us are critters that know more than we give them credit for. Hopefully we learn to save them, rather than cause their extinction, too.
If it took until 2024 to realize this, it shows the ignorance of people. Most will watch this and simply go to the next video in the algorithm.
Here here, I hope that we can emotionally grow from the mistakes of our individual and species past to make better decisions for the future. So that all life can enjoy the beauty of this amazing planet
@@hoover133not necessarily I think alot of stagnation has been on the lack of accessible knowledge up until this technological leap.
I hope more people see it, once they know they know. They may not actively think about it as much as the Roman empire however it's simmering back there in their knowledge box to hopefully come to realise the wonder of life. Lots of young people on the internet, I certainly didn't have the views I do now (31yrs) back then. I hope they see the world and become enthralled at its amazement as much as I did and do. Whether that day passes for each does not change my awe and curiosity for the extraordinary diversity of life on our little grain of sand in space.
do not count octopus in that bracket their intelligence is highly misunderstood and over exaggerated.They appear to be smarter than they are because of the bundles of nerves in their arms that allows for independent reaction and interaction.
Imagine how Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Orangutans are going to behave in they were introduced in North and South America.
A wound like that completely sealed in a few days?? That's not an orangutan, that's Wolverine!
Lol you think they're eating Mcdonalds cr*p like humans do? They definitely have way better immune systems & their wounds healing much faster is no surprise
Not a few days, the healing lasted one month, 3 days later was when the scientists observed that the orangutan applied the plant on his face.
Wolverang
@@RhiannonSenpaisealed, not healed. Two different words
Many primates have crazy healing capabilities. Humans are actually quite "fragile" comparatively in some ways. Macaques come to mind regarding high rates of healing things humans wouldn't easily walk away from. Not to mention, many primates don't have to really worry about issues humans do, like retained placenta and severe puncture wound deformity, scarring, and infection. It's crazy.
Considering the great advancements humans have made in culture, it wouldn't be surprising that apes have made a few modest advances as well.
The Indonesians say Orangutans CAN speak like men, but they never do it where we can hear, because if we did, we'd make them take JOBS.
great relative to what you goober
@@halbronco7690 Is everything alright over at home, little buddy?
@@halbronco7690 any other species bozo
@@bryanchen4879 you cant even perceive other beings cultures dweeb
Dogs will eat grass when they have stomach problems, so it does make sense that primates would, at a more advanced level, understand that maybe specific plants and actions help better.
I think that’s more instinct than purposeful self medicating as seen with this orangutan. It’s known that even dinosaurs ate pebbles to help digest food.
How would eating pebbles help them digest food?
Tigers does this too .
@@jc._.goated These are called gatroliths, and basically they help grind up food for larger herbivorous creatures.
@@rhettagon ah, thanks
7 minutes he was applying medicine but no recordings. How do u not record such ground breaking discovery.
yeah disappointing
Yeah seems like a pretty big timeframe to at least get something. Maybe they healed him up at a rehab center and let him back out, it's just an elaborate scheme to get them to pay taxes
Because scientists lie all the time. If they filmed the evidence they'd lose their grant money because...there is no evidence. The video states this is never before seen behavior and guess what...it still is lmfao.
We have pictures and video of before and after but not during 🤭🤭🤭
yeah gotta be garbage, got footage of everything but the plant medicine lol
Exactly!
I always knew orangutans were special. They are the hermit sage of nature. Always looking calm, not looking for trouble, demonstrating signs of great intelligence and even empathy/selflessness. Love them so much. On the opposite of the spectrum I am deathly afraid of chimpanzees and I definitely don't trust monkeys
agreed!
they always look calm in the videos we see. But I don't think a dominant male orangutan is all that calm. Probably not too different than a male gorilla.
orangutans and bonobos are top
because chimps are like humans, but wild.
literally me XD
the real shocking part was when he remembered to put his phone number in when he was asked if he was a cvs rewards member
"We will definitely keep an eye open."
Good one
100% respect to all scientist who observed these nature and animals ❤
Bro is in deep trouble for breaking the prime directive.
Aw he's evolving...into a doctor...
7 minutes he was doing it and they have no footage of it, yet they have so much footage of him not doing it.
Are you implying they’re lying abt it?
@@dubnation1360 I mean.. where's the evidence?
@@erickperez8770 i would take this with a grain of salt as much as i want this to be real i would need to see actual evidence
i saw this same monkey driving a golf cart to CVS to pick up antiobiotics. I'm pretty sure they're lying about the plant
I would absolutely love to know why he knew about this plant and seemed to be very confident that it would work. I think it would be a huge breakthrough for science if we could understand how he knew where to get it and that it would work, when we apparently haven't seen any other orangutans do it since at least 1994
There are 2 possibilities
1. Orangutans, typically those that live near Small Villages, will watch and mimic human behaviors. They'll cut wood with a handsaw, row on a canoe, and use a bucket and a washboard to "clean" fabrics. Probably saw humans use that plant as medicine on more than one occasion and caught on.
2. It was information that was passed on from parent to child.
If it was the second one, that speaks volumes of their intellect.
I guess it was trial and error by his ancestors and the knowledge has been passed on through generations. I guess that plant isn't particularly delicious, otherwise they would just eat it...
It might not be about plant knowledge. It's possible that plant made him salivate more, making it easier to produce a paste that would cover the wound and give him some relief. The medicinal properties may have been just a coincidence. Much like the other male that seeked relief by putting his finger in the cool water.
@@TriatttOr then it's wired to its brain through evolution. Smell or taste will trigger a feeling that the plant might relieve the pain. Would be a useful evolutionary trait that might get passed on in genes. Then again oranfutans are also very smart and have great capacity for learning. Also could be a bit of both genes and learning involved.
A theory is that they have imitated humans. Orangutans are great imitators. Also it may just be a coincidence the ape used just that plant. Apes are smart, but I don't think they would be smart enough to figure out such thing on their own. Either way it's vey fascinating.
*This isn't new. I saw Tarzan, the apes taught him how to use all types of plants for medicine*
Wow, so glad the monke did heal from the gore!
With no mirror, just felt it
Monkey smarter than most teen TikTokers. 😂
Apes not monkey
Monkey have tails, apes don't
How are you calling other people's intelligence into question when you A. legitimately think this is a monkey or B. Are so unoriginal you actually think that's funny, Either way do not call anyone else's intellectual prowess into question when your ignorance by choice is on full public display.
And adult.
Insulting the intelligence of others should be the last thing you do, they aren't monkeys, this is widespread knowledge. eVeRY 1 bUT mEE dUm
ape
"E-vo-lution!" - Proximus Caesar
What a wonderful day!
That has to hurt, imagine that being on your cheek..ouch!
“He kai te rongoā, he rongoā te kai” -food is medicine, medicine is food. I bet all animals self medicate just the orangutan was obvious enough for yous to observe
well, most animals do self medicate in some way, but most just evolves eating certain things, it's never a multi- step process like we see with humans, or, now Orangutans
@@ZomboseTM is the multiple steps what makes it amazing or was it his knowledge of the plants medicinal properties?
@@uggali both, it being multi-step implies he actually knows what he's doing with it by chewing it down and applying it, which is much more similar to how humans apply certain medicine than anything ever seen before
@@uggali the point is that the orangutang processed a medicinal plant into medicine.
Thats actually amazing
Sleeping is massive for healing.
Why didn't they film it?
If this guy evolves any faster he'll be at the pharmacy picking up the wrong medication for the Mrs in no time.
Too bad that we learn from these amazing, beautiful earthlings so many things - just before they go extinct.
I am so sorry for your losses. May they rest in peace.
Incredible
Wow, fascinating. Such amazing, intelligent creatures.
Smart and cute!!
salam, rakus meaning greedy, while he's sharing recepie can we call him bhakti (good deeds) or berbagi (sharing)
0:26
Omg she's gorgeous
mans made a poultice, nice :)
Don't bear chew on some types of bark for tooth pain?
How does bbc really have this video with no captions …. That woman was almost unintelligible 😭
Jerryspeak
Dr. Isabella😍🥰🥰
Ah so this must be that news DougDoug was talking about
How do you not have footage?
Fantastic
"He did that repeatedly for seven minutes" So why are you not showing us this footage, instead you show images that don't prove anything and it's you doing it on yourself what???
I dunno jack, I guess they either didn’t have a camera to pull outta their ass.
@@blackkennedy3966 The video shows plenty of footage and it's clear they had cameras. It's hard to believe trained scientists whose job is to observe the animal sometimes bring the cameras and sometimes not. If so, they should all be fired not on BBC. Seems more like someone is trying to boost their career.
Didnt get any of it on film though
This is like watchin earlu humsns
Thought scientist already observed this
I love her 😍
Orangutans rock!
She knew better not to put some tang on it...or she didnt have access to it when it mattered.. found a way either way.
Lady didn't discover anything.
no footage no proof
there's no footage of anything prior to the advent of film, so i guess nothing happened prior. ahh, to have a subzero iq
A nature person knows nature so good?!
Yet when I do it people get mad.
Do wounds heal faster when asleep?
Yes, sleep is when the body can focus more energy on healing injuries or fighting infections. That's why people recommend bed rest when you're sick or injured.
@@jacobcox4565 can I substitute with hammock rest?
@@micahrobbins8353 It doesn't matter how of where, just that you go to a comfortable place and stay at rest.
That is a german women.
That gaping wound healed in a few days? Wut
Minerals self
"Just take our word for it. Trust the SCIeNcE"
Don’t dolphins get high on puffer fish?
You know dude is gonne be the one that makes a universal cure and all he'll just charge us in fruits lol
Wow interesting
Maurice is a G
not watching (sorry view count) because ive already read about it a few times but this was an awesome story, really just cool on a lot of levels
These comments are killing me. Apes are showing amazing abilities and using “technology” the likes of which we’ve never seen and never imagined they could do but we’re making jokes about him rolling blunts and starting the Planet Of the Apes revolution lmaoooo I love how little of fucks my generation gives. Nothing bothers us. Aliens? Nah. Super intelligent apes? Nah.
I mean we're super intelligent apes so this is nothing new
Rakus and I, cut from the same cloth
smart monki
He wasn't just eating leaves, he was eating that pine-looking tree sap
Whatchu mean “never before seen”? there was a Wild Kratts episode from many years ago that talked about this
Welcome to the club buddy
Well Dogs eat grass when they have an upset stomach…… they’ve been doing it for years now 😏
Would Dr Zaius come to the front desk please.
🎶Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius... Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius... ohhhh, Dr. Zaius.🎶
What plant was the orangutan eating? To heal
Fibraurea tinctoria
That's smart, unlike the BBC
The first minute was almost up before I realized the word was MEDICATING. I was looking for some signs, some descriptions, as to how an orangutan could be observed to be MEDITATING! I thought, that would be an extraordinary claim! How would you go about proving that a wild animal, so impulsive and easily agitated... was capable of MEDITATING?
hahahahaha same here I was like wtf why are orangutans meditating
We should let them evolve.
I think God told the orangutan what to do to help the healing
gah LEE that german accent is rough. it’s so textbook lol
If an orangutan can learn how to perfectly drive a golf cart then it's not that surprising that they know how to make herbal medicine out plants naturally found in their home environment. We tend to forget how big brained orangutans are.
Is it just me or didn’t we already know this? I mean I feel like I seen a movie as a kid of a monkey doing the same thing, or a bear or some idk could have been a fever dream💀but I swear we knew monkeys already had this level of intelligence 😭 if not then excuse my outburst🤓
Why are people surprised? Indigenous folks all over the globe learned about medicines from watching what plants the animals ate when they were sick or injured. 😂
Wow you are smarter than all of us. Congratulations.
You must have been as smart as you are now since you were five 😂
A lot of indigenous knowledge got destroyed or written off as superstition by more "advanced" civilizations. This is basically new knowledge.
Yeah, unfortunately aboriginals could have some medical knowledge but getting exposed to unknown pathogens when contacting other civilizations caused havoc and chaos around the world as they obviously couldn't have vaccines nor natural immunity.
Did they also watch what plants the animals apply to their wounds like the video here?
What’s her @
The orangutan @?
orangutans are cool
Master monke race no doubt about it
... lol scientists just arent the same lol
me
Never seen behavior? I see dogs eat grass when they are sick
you know dogs run mostly on instinct, completely different rung of intelligence here
@@saiyanbob666 no. What about when dogs Lick other dog’s wounds or when they did something wrong and sit there with a silly guilty face. Or when a dog literally points with his paw when snitching out it’s fellow dog for eating at the trash. Animals are highly intelligent. We did not evolve from monkeys 🙊
I learned under Dr. Schwartz and he believed that our closing living relative are orangutans and not chimpanzees. He wrote “The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins” to support his theories. I’m not surprised by this type of behavior at all, they’re highly intelligent and kind.
Dr Monke MD
Nature speaks to us. Only those whose consciousness is receptive will understand the way in which nature teaches. Those who listen are empowered to do great things. Those individuals are not always human…
Weri gud inglisch
itz so bäd frfr
I'll get the Neosporin. Na na na na na... Neo. Na na na na na na na... Sporin.
Can't wait for Joe Rogan yapping about this.
Dannngg baddie with some brains???
Yea that's impressive and all but I'm over here thinking what an incredible ASMR voice this person has.
Call the police!
I wanna know what plant it is I mean, if it promotes wound healing it could literally be of value on a military scale.
Oh sure, the orangutan gets praise and its own documentary when it self-medicates, but when I do it I "have a problem" and "need to get out before we call the cops; this is a daycare!" Typical species double standards. 🙄
That is amazing and incredibly interesting. I’ve heard orangutans were in the Stone Age, this basically confirms it for me.
Do you even know what the stone age means?
@@Baghuul the adoption of stone tools and basic medical treatments. Trepanning was first used by Stone Age man
The IQ bell curve of Australian aborigines and orang-utans are very close and overlap.
What's an orange utan
Mmmmmm monkeh
She’s bad though