New research sheds light on how chimpanzees self-medicate wounds with plants and provide aid to other chimps. A new report ...

The new study builds on last year's discovery, where it was found that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to ...

There is still debate, researchers say, over whether the behavior is instinctual or based in more complex thought or even ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed ... on the discovery last year that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate. The scientists also compiled decades of scientific ...

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.

Bears pop natural painkillers, ants perform ‘operations’, and mice can do CPR. See how animals and plants self-medicate, and ...

Chimpanzees ‘self-medicate’ with healing plants Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine Lead researcher Elodie Freymann explained there was "a whole behavioural repertoire that ...