Feels Good: The Current Voltage And Orangutan Self Healing

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fresh Show is on. It feels good, good news, happy stories.
We share them every day on the show. Kaylene, what'd
you find?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Days after Roger Watson's one hundredth birthday staff at the
current Beverly Senior Living development in Massachusetts through a party
complete with loved ones, a custom cake, and a performance
from his newly formed band called The Current Voltage. Oh boys,
one hundred.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Current Voltage, Right, yes, let's get years old.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, the photos are so cute. So the retired engineer
started playing drums in a jazz and swing band in
the nineteen thirties, but he formed his new band, The
Current Voltage with some fellow residents at the Old Folks Home,
often jumping between the drums and his other favorite, the Sacks.
The move aligns with the advice he had to share
with those younger than him, don't wait until you're old
to live life and do the things you love. So

(00:52):
he turned a hundred and he got to perform with
his band on the drums at his old folks Home.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I don't know if is this good news, sweet or
just cool or whatever, But even though there is evidence
of certain self medication behaviors and animals. So far, it's
never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants,
but now biologists in Indonesia have observed this in a
male orangutan. So cool so after sustaining a facial wound,
he ate and repeatedly applied sap from a climbing plant

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with anti inflammatory and pain relieving properties commonly used the
in traditional medicine. He covered the entire wound himself with
the green plant mesh, the closest relative to humans. The
great apes are known to ingest specific plants to treat
parasite infection, and to rub plant material on their skin
to treat sore muscles, which that's just cool.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
They're so smart.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
During daily observations of the orangutans, we noticed that a
male named Rakous had sustain a facial wound, most likely
during a fight with a neighboring male, and he treated
it himself. He even knows what's to take with little
Tommy hurts.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's nuts.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Doesn't get insurance. You know what I'm saying. And I
want to say it was it was a gorillas or
orange thing, but I bring this up every time we
talk about it. This sort of species this area. But
there is a video online of a guy who raised
I want to say it was gorillas. He raised gorillas,
like rescue gorillas as babies, and then they released them.
And then he went a little boat many years later

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to see if they remembered him. And they did. They
remembered him. They welcomed his wife, they entered the male
that he raised, introduced him to his wives. Yeah, and kids.
And then the male that he raised tried to get
with his wife. Oh, totally flirted with his wife. Oh yeah,

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like cuddled her, like took the hat off her head
and put it on his head. I mean, he seems
like there's a person inside of like a costume. When
you're watching this video. We should get it up at
Fredshire Radio dot com. Got it right. It is amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I love them.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
And they were worried like he would out there, and
he had like dudes with tranquilizer guns and stuff because
like it's just a big ass animal now and he
wasn't sure if he would be remembered and then welcomed.
But the dude he started calling his name and like
making these like noises, and the dude just comes out
of the forest and is like hey man. Yeah, and
then as he leaves, he follows him all the way

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down the river because he's upset because he's leaving. That's
his boy, like his boy came over, didn't hang out
that long, they didn't have a beer, nothing. They're so smart.
It's amazing. It's an amazing video. Fred Show Radio dot com.
We'll get that up there so you can see it.