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Investigating medicinal resource combinations in the Bornean orangutan diet
| datacite.subject.sdg | 15:Proteger a Vida Terrestre | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 03:Saúde de Qualidade | |
| datacite.subject.sdg | 04:Educação de Qualidade | |
| dc.contributor.author | Allen, G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Freymann, E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | d´Oliveira Coelho, João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shagara, H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shinyo, I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Panda, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jaya, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hockings, K. J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Morrogh-Bernard, H. C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-02T16:12:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-02T16:12:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026-05-13 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Self-medication occurs across diverse taxa, but identifying novel behaviours and medicinal resources remains challenging due to the need for long-term observation, intensive health monitoring, and costly pharmacological analyses. Recent advances in analytical methods have enabled the development of the self-medicative resource combination hypothesis (SMRCH), which proposes that non-human animals may deliberately combine therapeutic resources when ill. This framework has previously been applied to identify non-random dietary combinations in wild chimpanzees. Here, we extend this approach to another great ape by examining dietary combinations in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), a species with emerging evidence of medicative feeding behaviour, thereby enabling broader comparative insight into medicative feeding across great apes. Using longterm feeding data from a Sebangau peat-swamp forest Central Kalimantan, we analysed patterns of plant use and evaluated their potential medicinal relevance. Our analyses revealed non-random dietary combinations involving plant species with documented ethnomedicinal and pharmacological properties. These findings are consistent with the SMRCH, supporting its utility as a framework for identifying non-random dietary associations that may represent candidate self-medicative behaviours in orangutans and other great apes. This research highlights the importance of preserving Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity conservation and global health research. | eng |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-026-52614-4 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/29204 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | Springer | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Scientific Reports | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Pongo pygmaeus | |
| dc.subject | Zoopharmacognosy | |
| dc.subject | Self-medication | |
| dc.subject | Food combinations | |
| dc.subject | Feeding ecology | |
| dc.title | Investigating medicinal resource combinations in the Bornean orangutan diet | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 18690 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Scientific Reports | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 16 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.familyName | d´Oliveira Coelho | |
| person.givenName | João | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-0871-1926 | |
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