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Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even ...
A new study from Uganda's Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the specific medicinal ...
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Researchers in Uganda’s Budongo Forest document chimpanzees' use of medicinal plants and care methods to heal injuries.
A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Oxford and published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ...
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She added that humans likely learned from these creatures and evolved a sense for medicinal plants in the past. And she suggested that pharmaceutical companies could use these animals’ knowledge ...
“We started really paying attention to how some of these plants were used traditionally in human medicinal knowledge systems and which bioactive properties they’ve been shown in the past to ...
A new study from Uganda’s Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the specific medicinal properties of certain plants and will go out of their way to treat the ...