Wild Orangutan Heals Himself with Medicinal Plant in World First | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Wild Orangutan Heals Himself with Medicinal Plant in World First | Vantage with Palki Sharma
An orangutan in Indonesia has healed his own wound. The wild orangutan is named Rakus. He self-medicated using a medicinal plant. This is the first time a wild animal recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant. Rakus used leaves of yellow root plants, which possess anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Rakus created paste of leaves and applied it to wound repeatedly. Within five days, the orangutan's wound had closed. Within a month, the orangutan's wound healed without any signs of infection. Animals often self-medicate to treat ailments. How do they acquire the skills? How did the orangutan learn how to use leaves to heal his injury? Palki Sharma tells you.
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[@mayank.9203]

at this point i am convinced they don't talk only because they don't wanna pay taxes.

[@vvW888]

😂😂😂😂

[@VivekRanjanRajput]

😂

[@titanichisete648]

U got me 😂😂😂

[@Shadow-uw3ld]

😂😂😂

[@Amoghavarsha.]

Same boring comments I see in every similar videos !

[@ganeshlakshmanan3391]

Human - Artificial Intelligence Orangutan - Natural intelligence

[@Ducktility]

What on the earth is the logic behind this comment?

[@alkasoli4002]

True

[@THESURAFELB]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SophiaPatriciaLifeCoach]

😅👊

[@alpineflieger4363]

most animals self medicate, they know what plants to eat when they are sick, just watch your dog or chickens...they know what to eat when they are sick...

[@davehenderson6896]

I wonder if that's how marijuana was discovered?

[@stannisbarracuda5693]

I always thought this was common knowledge that animals self medicate

[@sudhanshusingh3395]

​@@wolfmangoland7972She litwrally said first recorded?????

[@wolfmangoland7972]

@@sudhanshusingh3395 nature chanels videos, National Geographic and home videos have documented it.

[@lostashmish]

for europeans yes.. their brains are hard wired from their dark era that animals plants whole planet is without soul and life EXCEPT humans (xtians with chosen soul and infidels with fallen satanic soul)... Whole of east revere animals... until they (part of them) converted to either of abrahmic thought of xtiality izl@m or communism

[@ultimatesunrise]

Jaguars in the Amazon eat DMT to get high

[@AshaBlack-wy3ol]

They do. Dogs and cats will do it in nature

[@amazingcalvin]

Even stray dogs have been observed by ppl of olden times to heal itself of stomach problems by eating a combination of specific plant leaves, which is not part of it's usual diet. Whether it is DNA hardwired behavior or just learned behavior which can be useful for future reference, we cannot deny that animals know more than we think they do.

[@Sam-nb8ev]

I have seen cats do the same too.

[@alkasoli4002]

True... monkeys use certain leaves as insect repellent

[@10jeffinjoseph]

It's not self medication unless it uses same medicine again and again.Does cat do it or dog do it simple answer no.

[@amazingcalvin]

@@10jeffinjoseph Yes they do it again and again whenever the situation arises. The dog or cat might not know why the plants are able to help solve it's problem but they do eat them whenever problem comes.

[@10jeffinjoseph]

@@amazingcalvin what plant do they eat?

[@moussatall8503]

this is new to the west not to Africa,in Africa we know this about animals.

[@wayando]

Yeah. It seems obvious too.

[@greatworld1881]

@@AmkertYan like you never seen lions chewing on grasses to medicate their upsetting tummy

[@eddiemonesti5671]

​@greatworld1881 is not the same. Dogs also eats grass.

[@wayando]

@@AmkertYan ... Show me a book that names the person who discovered there are humans on this planet ...

[@stopblaming-pf6nh]

The point is he used it topically and precisely. Regarding Africans and their knowledge of animals? Yes the knowledge is there but where is the compassion?

[@info145]

Primitive humans learned almost everything by observing animals! Not just medicine, but even things to eat... and more. For example: Where did Asians get Kung Fu and other martial arts? Ask them and they'll even admit it... the Tiger, the Snake, the Mantis, the Crane, and the Monkey!

[@gladiusclaymore6976]

Exactly. She asks "Where did the Orangutan learn it?" WE learned from the animals!

[@mathurp6889]

​@@AmkertYan The martial sciences have evolved from observing animals. Kungfu panda might be an animated movie but they used legit kungfu moves.

[@YoursTAngel]

Exactly, there are even many yoga poses on animal's name.

[@Halo-u]

Pelajaran dasar ketika bertahan hidup di hutan adalah jangan makan tanaman yang tidak disentuh oleh hewan lain terutama tupai dan monyet. Bisa jadi itu adalah tanaman beracun.

[@wolfmangoland7972]

Groundbreaking. I guess all those animals using nature’s pharmacy for millennia were just rehearsing for this moment."

[@jayson1071]

Very cool !! Thabks for the content

[@NormanLor]

PERHAPS THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE. VE SEEN THIS AS I THINK THESE HAVE BEEN HERE FOR MILLENIA AND HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT CENTURIES AGO??!!

[@user-ph8fv9co8p]

Indigenous people learned from the animals

[@AnonymousAnonymous-dc3jm]

It's known that if a rat gets bitten by a snake it runs and searches for a plant and eats it and then lives, other animals also know what plants can make them live!

[@SiaFetz46664]

Even dogs eat grass when have a stomach upset....

[@solver55]

do you understand how concious the animal is? how much aware animals can be and keeping them in zoo is how cruel.

[@drewidrie2396]

Some day in the distant future, Orangutans will be talking about how there used to be a race of super Orangutans that once lived here and controlled the Earth before them and eventually left. Most Orangutans won't believe it...

[@aprajita.makeup.film.dramaa]

He is so cuteeee🥺

[@indrajeetsingh2917]

Not more than you.

[@aprajita.makeup.film.dramaa]

@@indrajeetsingh2917 comon now😅😂

[@indrajeetsingh2917]

@@aprajita.makeup.film.dramaa ok😪

[@firohot5476]

When i do self medication they say its wrong 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ardentares1167]

They can taste and sense medicinal properties

[@surendraaryatalk4m548]

Thanks for relay It is amazing How we can learn though animal

[@gauthamkshatriya2953]

mother nature always gave us a solution for every decease.

[@purplelove3666]

God gives us every solution to every disease, "mother nature" doesn't make any sense ,nature is a creation of God

[@Bre1958.]

Do not worship the creature, worship the one true Creator of all things, God.❤️🙏🏼✨🙌🏼

[@gauthamkshatriya2953]

@@Bre1958. There is no god i consiousness is the only god and the universe is within me and i am within the universe. creater and the creation both are same.

[@Bre1958.]

@@gauthamkshatriya2953 Order, beauty, complexity, etc., cannot be created on its own and you can understand it by paying attention to your surroundings and your own work. Believing that I am God and creator is like believing that I can cut off a piece of my body and that I will make it grow on my own. Jesus Christ is the only way.

[@Bre1958.]

@@gauthamkshatriya2953 Order, beauty, complexity, etc., cannot be created on its own and you can understand it by paying attention to your surroundings and your own work. Believing that I am God and creator is like believing that I can cut off a piece of my body and that I will make it grow on my own. Jesus Christ is the only way.

[@x62104]

They are future of this planet.

[@mic445]

Wonderful

[@kkmishra1679]

In very simple words the lesson from these animals are Be the self sufficient in every field

[@lyeseng]

Hello! I have seen a dog eat a plant to stop his diarrhea. How do you think animals stay healthy?

[@VivekRanjanRajput]

अद्भुत😮

[@jaaz5531]

Our ancestors knew everything!😂

[@HappyLife-re4cc]

What is called this plant?? I have a wound has been 7 years, and i went to alot of doctors, but didn't saw any result, please, tell me about this plant, and how can find the medicine??

[@CalmSoul.514]

They are super intelligent 🤓🤓

[@jennieferakello5223]

God gave both animals & humans the ability to self medicate.Dogs chew a certain grass when they feel nausea and upset gut.For every dis-ease there is a plant that heals it besides Africans healed themselves before Missionaries/colonialists came and demonised all our plant medicine.I know a few of them atleast.

[@erickokello4455]

God gives the wisdoms in all its creation

[@thetruth3164]

Wow !

[@user-pm4gc9ks2i]

Humans have a lot to learn from nature.

[@wildwaning9427]

He applied a poultice. That's all. Don't know why humans are so surprised, they *live* in the wild...they know what to do. Some humans are the slow ones.

[@anaya7700]

Sloth😢

[@user-ph8fv9co8p]

God 🙏 or great spirits.

[@virajvrooms]

Orangutan is clever than our courts 😂

[@tengkuferdiansyah8617]

Amazing 🐒

[@ryan3390]

What plant is that?

[@rajiolawunmi8299]

Subhanallah!!

[@shomikoto7558]

They ate getting inteligent.

[@gujaratidroid6163]

Rise of the planet of the Alpes

[@SimbaM2kufu]

In Tabora Tanzania, 1998 our pet monkey would rub himself with leaves that had a strong smell. It took us a while to realize the leaves he used made mosquito repellent.

[@markushoffsten]

Some body know exactly what leafs that was? / Sweden!

[@stevenwilliams3015]

But there is isn't any part of the video that shows the animal applying the leave on the wound

[@mezgebufentea2419]

This is not the first time animals use plant for medication It is your first time to see it

[@richelesaga8933]

it is well known since ancient time that animals eat healing medicine when theyre sick, who do you think our ancestor learn ancient medicine what so new about it?

[@jenny-im9gc]

It’s an innate god given ability. Man use to have those instincts until we started denying there is a God

[@StickyKeys187]

Their rainforest habitat unfortunately are dwindling day by day. For example, Tesso Nilo national park in sumatra has been converted largely to oil palm and paper monoculture plantations, showing that even protected areas are not really protected from deforestation.

[@anejiclovisndep813]

I'm extremely shocked that this is strange to some people. Adaptability is one thing every creature associates with. Each specie must have faced pandemics at some point in their timeline. If we still have all these species around it'll be stupid to think they never face sever biological and health challenges. I grew up seeing animals self medicate. From fowls to mammals. Seeing wounded reptiles immersing themselves into water for extended periods, seeing dogs eating special herbs, herbivores eating specific leaves and adjusting their activity patterns. Most people really don't know animals are hundreds of times more sophisticated than we can ever understand. Anything that survives in the wild has an all round capability against any problems they can encounter. It's nature.

[@p.g.3419]

Therefore, the key to survival in the forests is also knowledge, not just physical form understood as evolution or adaptation to a hostile environment, so... the orangutan mother teaches her children and we learn from her children by observing them closely, their trees are also useful to us, while oil palms are good for whom?

[@xyzpeace7814]

❤❤

[@UjjwalKumar-se6pm]

Are Bhai... Not first every orangutan... Human saw it for the first time and reported.

[@wolfmangoland7972]

Watch the pharmaceutical lobby jump into action! Soon, we'll see headlines screaming, 'This plant wrecks orangutan livers!' But somehow, they'll forget to mention that every pill they push comes with a side of 'may cause unexpected adventures in side effects'.

[@thulubhekemiya2988]

Survival instinct they's few things seperate us from other animals very few

[@wayando]

I think even humans started medicine in this exact same way ... We identify effects from interaction with plants, and then repeat the action. We only started doing "research" to develop medicine from scratch vwry recently, like less than 100yrs.

[@wayando]

@@AmkertYan ... So basically it's nothing new. And we shouldn't be acting all surprised that an animal knows to use certain plants to eliminate particular symptoms.

[@Cwgrlup]

News flash: animals are smart 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@baromuni2992]

My house cat sometimes eat grass when she feels stomach pain.

[@AMM874]

“But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? (Job 12:7-10)

[@treasurenkhwashu]

They filmed it the whole time but not when he actually healed himself?

[@user-zi3yf3xi6m]

Wonderful, maybe Indias medical schools can take heed and hire them as instructors.

[@jjMavani]

Body has its own intelligence for survival but thoughts make it worst😂😂😂

[@sandeerao86]

Omg. They have been using this for millennia. Only thing is you just noticed it now.

[@user-yq3yr1if9e]

It seems that someone is evolving 😉.

[@charmainemoodley2414]

What is the name of the plant

[@topazx9801]

Yellow root or golden seal

[@umutumat]

Manfaat Akar Kuning untuk Kesehatan Meningkatkan Daya Tahan Tubuh. ... Menangkal Radikal Bebas. ... Mengobati Disentri. ... Meringankan Rasa Pegal. ... Menjadi Obat Tumor dan Kanker. ... . Mempercepat Proses Penyembuhan Luka Luar. ... . Mencegah Penuaan Dini. ... Bersifat Sebagai Antibakteri.

[@blueeyes5952]

It's not first ever but it's been so for many years before scientific arrived

[@HelloAutoCarz]

My ancestors have been doing that for years…

[@Srikantaiah_Jaya]

Becareful man, next time if you made any mistake while reporting, your boss will replace you with that Orangutan.

[@Jesustillsaves]

Im the only person not seeing where he self treated himself.. i have the video several time but dont see what they talking about

[@HelloAutoCarz]

Offcourse animals heals themselves

[@iyke4djakes]

Ever wondered why goats in the wild never die from snake bites. Native goats in Nigeria seek out special plants once bitten by a snake.

[@youngeast4150]

They learn it from junggle school in borneo

[@mzanziman9150]

Animals already know how to get high, jaguars eat ayahuasca plants, dolphins chew puffer fish... Human like learning is animal learning

[@omdikk_]

he is real maurice, from planet of the apes series

[@tjk4929]

Modern science will never accept it😂😂😂

[@user-mm4pl4wq7t]

Meanwhile intellectual Liberandus : Ayurvedha is fake. 😂😂😂

[@jeekanza]

🤔First ever known to man👈 Think 💬

[@karinabrampt1556]

Generations have taught him what plants are good and what plants are poisonous. He would have been taught by his mother or he has observed humans using the same plant.

[@snafees7]

and we are consuming processed food everyday!!

[@FirstLast-ir3wg]

I think scientists are stupid to just follow the same old thinking. Naturally when you eat plants or vegetables you can understand the taste properties of the plant and if you're a animal you can just eat all day all kinds of plants you see and observe little by little how they're behaving, are they making you feel weird strong or dizzy or dangerous or basically you can feel and I think that's how these animals know what to do what not to do or atleast they try and see......just saying that they're learning from their members is a stupid answer cause who taught the first monkey that? I also heard a friend saying " in ancient times when a family member gets sick cows go to forest graze diff plants and leaves and gives milk the next day which helps with recovery " don't know how much of it is true but was fascinating.

[@ladifmefireabdou5256]

Who do you think was healing them ? Every living creatures self medicate.

[@buddadavid480]

Dog's too

[@GameplayTubeYT]

We defeat the Neanderthal can we defeat the new Human. Species that will emerge when this apes evolve?

[@mandrellnowell1474]

They won't tell us what plant he used

[@gitslover9834]

It’s called Yellow Root.

[@ishikasingh5460]

As a human we are ignoring Ayurvedas ,but animals are preserving them ,after 100 years whole world will start follow Ayurvedas again 😅.why because they will realize that animals are more healthy and wise as compared with human .😅😅😅😅

[@storageaccount5573]

dogs eat certain grass to heal their guts.

[@viki_sky007]

😢 Still We humans dont believe in Herbal and Ayurvedic Healthcare.

[@nomadnastya2998]

its not first ,we saw the first

[@stevefirsake899]

Cats and dogs eat grass and strange weeds all the time to heal themselves

[@rizz45yui]

Maurice is that you?

[@AdamahChavah]

This just shows that the so-called signs that the humans believe in are not smart at all... There is a God which are in heaven; who created all things and you don't think animals know what's good and bad for them... It's call common sense... Smart 🤓 Pt ♊ The question is what are you going to do when they come out of captivity... Da Zoo😱

[@sushmabhat6151]

Sabhi log likh lo …upsc mein na puch le iss bar pichli bar ki taraha😅

[@medinacreativesolutions1634]

I’m sure they saw someone doing it

[@emotionalIntelligence2078]

Its not just the plant, but also the saliva of orungatan that must be acting with the leaves.

[@queenbhinta60]

You can't say 'first ever' cause u don't leave with em

[@jigsaw2281]

Pharma companies in india are sad now ...

[@relaxingmusicproduction9679]

Bro is one word away from paying tax

[@rahulvig5298]

how many times are you going to reupload this lmao

[@shriv21]

Inflation is so high that he could not go to a vet

[@markbatson7407]

The first time on video. Not the first time doing it

[@anandhjawahar1370]

Today there will be new form of medicine called "Ancestor Used Medicine"

[@xaviertudu1005]

ceaser is real