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And here's a short piece from the May 2018 issue of the magazine. Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Merski.

And 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.

Arangutan Medicine by Doug Main.

Medicine is not exclusively a human invention. Many other animals,

from insects to birds to non-human primates, have been known to self-medicate with plants and

minerals for infections and other conditions. Behavioral ecologist Helen Murug-Bernard of the

Borneo Nature Foundation has spent decades studying the island's orangutans and says she has now found evidence they use plants in a previously unseen medicinal way.

During more than 20,000 hours of formal observation, Murug-Bernard and her colleagues watched 10 orangutans occasionally chew a

particular plant, which is not part of their normal diet, into a foamy lather and then rub it

into their fur. The apes spent up to 45 minutes at a time massaging the concoction onto their

upper arms or legs. The researchers believe this behavior is the

first known example of a non-human animal using a topical analgesic. Local people use the same plant,

an unremarkable-looking shrub with stalked leaves, to treat aches and pains. Morug-Bunard's co-authors

studied its chemistry. They added extracts

from the plant to human cells that had been grown in a dish and had been artificially

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