• Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'

    From Primum Sapienti@invalide@invalid.invalid to sci.anthropology.paleo on Wed Aug 13 22:44:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: sci.anthropology.paleo


    with short video

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj7ln85vxwo

    Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using
    medicinal plants - in multiple ways - to treat
    open wounds and other injuries.

    University of Oxford scientists, working with a
    local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and
    recorded incidents of the animals using plants
    for first aid, both on themselves and
    occasionally on each other.
    ...



    https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1540922/full
    Front. Ecol. Evol., 13 May 2025

    Self-directed and prosocial wound care, snare
    removal, and hygiene behaviors amongst the
    Budongo chimpanzees


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