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Orangutans Using Wild Medicines with Dr Isabelle Laumer | S4E59

Cover photo credit: Armas Fitra & TNGL & KLHK & MPI & UNAS & YEL

BBC article on Rakus the self-medicating orangutan 8

 

RAKUS. Photo Credits: Armas Fitra & TNGL & KLHK & MPI & UNAS & YEL

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Isabelle Laumer is a Cognitive Biologist and Primatologist with a strong interest in the evolution of cognitive abilities. For more than ten years, she has intensively studied great apes and parrots at various institutions, including the University of Vienna, Austria, the Max-Planck-Institute for Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, the University of California Los Angeles, U.S., and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz.