Animals from primates to bees have been found to self-medicate in one form or another — and great apes are no exception. One day, plants consumed by gorillas may provide new avenues for drug ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using plants to treat open wounds and tend to each other's injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research ...

Chimpanzees eat their lunch at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center, 45 km from the city of Bukavu in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The plants chimpanzees use to treat their wounds have been found to have medicinal properties. Inside the chimpanzee medicine cabinet: we’ve found a new way chimps treat wounds with plants Home ...

Self-directed and prosocial wound care, snare removal, and hygiene behaviors amongst the Budongo chimpanzees. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . Published online May 14, 2025. doi: 10.3389/fevo ...

So when researchers set out to determine the bioactive properties of plants consumed by the park’s western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), and which the Vungu also use for medicine ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using plants to treat open wounds and tend to each other's injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest ...

Scientists studying chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest of Uganda noticed the creatures seem to be administering a sort of first aid. Wild chimps are specifically seeking out plants with medicinal ...

Chimpanzees use medicinal plants to treat themselves and others: What it says about empathy. A new study from Uganda’s Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the ...