The chimpanzee was sick ... study adds to a body of research that suggests some animals may use plants or insects to self-medicate. Our closest cousins, the apes, have often played a starring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A landmark study has revealed that wild chimpanzees use medicinal plants to treat themselves when ill, a finding that could assist in the search for new drugs. Researchers led by Dr Elodie ...

Wild chimpanzees have been observed self-medicating their wounds with plants, providing medical aid to other chimps and even removing others from snares left by human hunters, new research suggests.

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 ...

Wild chimps are specifically seeking out plants with medicinal properties for injuries. And the chimps are not just self-medicating — they also appear to treat one another’s wounds.

leading researchers to theorize the plants were being consumed for their medicinal properties. “To study wild chimpanzee self-medication you have to act like a detective — gathering ...