Sick and injured chimpanzees self-medicate using medicinal plants, researchers have found. Wild chimps in Uganda have been filmed seeking out and eating plants with antibacterial and anti ...

Chimpanzees May Self-Medicate With Plants, Using the Forest as a Pharmacy New research suggests sick chimps seek out and eat plants with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties—a finding ...

Wild chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to eat when they are sick or injured, a study says. ... Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants. 20 June 2024. Share Save. Victoria Gill.

Chimpanzees seen self-medicating with healing plants when sick or injured. The chimps sought out unappetizing plants with medicinal but little nutritional value, scientists said.

Sick and injured chimpanzees self-medicate using medicinal plants, researchers have found. Wild chimps in Uganda have been filmed seeking out and eating plants with antibacterial and anti ...

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 ...

Chimpanzees are not the only species that engage in self-care using natural remedies. Several animals have been observed using plants and minerals to treat ailments.

Primatologist Elodie Freymann arrived in Uganda’s Budongo Forest in 2021 to observe the chimpanzees there and learn more about their ability to self-medicate with healing plants. But as she ...

Wild chimpanzees seek out medicinal plants to eat when they are sick or injured, a study says. ... Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants. Image source, Elodie Freymann.

Wild chimpanzees eat plants that have pain-relieving and anti-bacterial properties to heal themselves, according to scientists. ... Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants ...

Wild chimpanzees eat plants that have pain-relieving and anti-bacterial properties to heal themselves, according to scientists. They described their “detective work” in the forests of Uganda ...