Orangutan seen “self-medicating” in world first | BBC Global 

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.

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i saw him in kensington walkin around like a zombie

3:02 before the blunt 3:06 after taking three tokes

But did he smoke it? More over, did he smoke it and then talk _philosophically_ to his homies?

Wrong kind of Ape man lol

I did! I understood that reference!

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Apes together strong

@@boglenight1551literally everybody watching videos about apes understand the reference

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@@HassanSanem Hassan why are you here and not studying to be a doctor

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Then some orangutans will start blocking off the trees,and require a rediculous amount of food payments to use the trees, then the alphas will set arbitrary amounts you can have and if an orangutan who section the trees gives an orangutan more than the arbitrary amount they say, they will banish that orangutan,and label the orangutan who needed the trees. If you try to make your own, grow your own tree (prohibiting you from making substances from nature) they will get outcast from the group and forced to pay food fines. So don’t make your own cause you need to pay the insane food amounts they set and only get amount they say.

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Maurice is outdated now lol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???

@@user-kc8fv8pf9eThey’re referring to an orangutan from a movie.

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.

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​@@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.

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

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.

Bro’s not starfleet and bro ain’t no alien lmao

That's what he wants you to think.

(primate directive)

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 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

Try telling that to my dad.

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.

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!

This is actually an interesting thought. If the scientists were smart, they’d get up there, scrape the tree, chew it and try to see what about it made him decide to put it on his face. Is it cooling, is it numbing? Surely he doesn’t know about its anti microbial properties.

@@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis i 100% would not scrape a tree and chew it to see if my mouth goes numb, that sounds like a darwin award waiting to happen... However that might be what the orangutang is doing.

​@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis we have better ways of testing things than chewing on them.

We and Orangutans can eat the same food.... it isnt that weird idea ​@@sneakydragon2352

​@@DR-sv8ke She is saying it would be interesting to do what the orangutan did, namely chew on it, in order to figure what it is about the sensations chewing produces that could have led the ape to believe applying it to the wound could help

Must have Molina Health Insurance.

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

@@Kyoryu_The_Onethe crazy thing is, no one cares if you believe it or not. Your opinion is of no significance

And didn't film the thing they're taking about.

Because it’s probably all bullshit. . .

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.

there's no footage of anything prior to the advent of film, so i guess nothing happened prior. ahh, to have a subzero iq

It applied it to the wound

Agreed. I feel like we aren’t giving animals enough credit. Elephants bury their dead. Monkeys use tools. This isn’t new. This isn’t ground breaking.

RU-vid censorship rules.

@@mojus2890 But they SHOWED the animal wounded already in the video. So certainly, that rule is okay for this educated video? Considering it's still up, showing the Orangutan wounded as is. What's the difference of the full surgeries of animals on RU-vid or the ones that are getting veterinary care? What I am getting at, is that they do not have the footage, whatsoever....

Exactly why I’m calling bullshit on this…

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.

Yeah evidentiary scientific research is specially operated in such a way where it is not licensed to the media in any form. This is the main reason things like sanctioned /legit journals or items like BRILL publications are hundreds of dollars per copy and are the only legal source of the information. If you want to be a successful researcher, you need to be in these publications, if you're in the publications, it cant be media content.