Orangutans process plants into medicine, study finds

Mongabay
Dec 4, 2017, 5:42 pm157 pts
The natural world is full of medicines, many of which have been tapped by pharmaceutical companies to derive products that adorn our drugstore shelves and bathroom cabinets. But humans aren’t the only animals that can find and apply medicinal substances, and now new research adds orangutans to the growing…

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