“Forests are home to diverse animal species that lose their home (habitat) or become fragmented when forests are cleared, ...

Humans have watched and learned from animals who treat their ills with bioactive plants. This animal wisdom has a scientific ...

WILD chimpanzees eat plants that have pain-relieving and ... observing animals that appeared injured or sick to work out whether they were self-medicating with plants. When an injured animal sought ...

This discovery builds on previous findings that chimpanzees consume specific plants to self-medicate against parasites and infections. Chimpanzees are not the only species that engage in self ...

In this forest, chimpanzees have been observed treating wounds using plants—such as forest physicians ... into earlier observations of animal self-medication. Chimpanzees were observed dabbing ...

where it was found that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate. "The chimpanzees dab them (plants) on their wounds or chew the plants up, and then apply the chewed material to the ...

Scientists studying chimpanzees in the Budongo ... are specifically seeking out plants with medicinal properties for injuries. And the chimps are not just self-medicating — they also appear ...

University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded the animals using plants for ... and 34 cases were self-care. All chimpanzees mentioned ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using plants to treat open wounds and tend ... and 34 cases were self-care. All chimpanzees mentioned in the data recovered from their wounds, but ...

May 14 (UPI) --New research sheds light on how chimpanzees self-medicate wounds with plants and provide aid to other chimps. A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical ... suggests other animal species might self-medicate, with varying levels of sophistication.