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

They also use leaves to clean themselves after intercourse to help prevent infections. The post Chimps use medicinal plants ...

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

Chimpanzees in Uganda use plants to treat wounds and help injured companions, revealing potential roots of human medicine.

A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Oxford and published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ...

Researchers monitoring chimpanzee communities in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, noticed that individuals were helping each other ...

Today, herbalism and wild plant foraging has become an increasingly popular alternative to modern medicine. Herbal medicine is still widely used among American-Indian, Chinese and European populations ...

Chimpanzees don’t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too. In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have ...

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

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 ...