Ape Medicine

[@briq4339]

I remember the amazing orangutan story being reported. You brought up interesting points that are really worth considering: how did the ape know what to do to treat his injury? Where did this knowledge come from? How can he appreciate the delayed results from his ministrations? Great questions that require more research!

[@peteswan2396]

This is amazing. Could it be instinctive behaviour? Could instinctive behaviour be inherited? I’ve been watching a lot of Denis Noble.

[@JoseZelaya-wv4ch]

Wow 🎉

[@tamjammy4461]

Both of these examples are fascinating. I could say amazing.....but maybe that would say more about us and our preconceived biases than it would about our fellow primates. How much ink has been wasted arguing about who the first toolmaker was? The temptation to see our own group/species as "special" or somehow 'exceptional" is always present....but rarely insightful.