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Great Ape Makes Good Doc

By Doug Main on May 16, 2018

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Orangutans were observed to use plant extracts to treat their own pain.

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Here’s a short piece from the May 2018 issue of the magazine, in the section we call Advances: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology and Medicine:

Orangutan Medicine by Doug Main

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