A new study from Uganda's Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimps understand the specific medicinal ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even ...

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 ...

Chimps in the wild use medicinal leaves to perform "First Aid" on their friends and family, reveals new research. They also ...

A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides fresh clues on the origin of human ...

Chimps in the wild use medicinal leaves to perform "First Aid" on their friends and family, reveals new research. They also ...

The chimps use the leaves to treat their own injuries and tend the wounds of others. According to results published in the ...

A 2021 review of 32 randomised controlled trials involving nearly 5,200 people with chronic pain, examined the effects of ...

“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 ...

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 ...