Observers have long suspected that chimpanzees use plants to self-medicate. Now, a new paper published last week in the journal PLOS ONE offers more evidence in support of this idea. Researchers ...

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.

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

Pharmacological and behavioral investigation of putative self-medicative plants in Budongo chimpanzee diets. PLOS ONE , 2024; 19 (6): e0305219 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305219 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

after they were observed seeking out infection-fighting plants to self-medicate. The "thrilling discovery" was made by a group of researchers who followed 51 chimpanzees in the Budongo Central ...

Chimpanzees may be using the forest like their own personal pharmacy. When they’re sick, the primates appear to seek out and eat plants with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties ...

Wild chimpanzees eat plants that have pain ... that appeared injured or sick to work out whether they were self-medicating with plants. When an injured animal sought out something specific from ...