Chimpanzees were observed to self-medicate with medicinal plants when they were sick or injured.
The chimpanzee was sick. There was diarrhea and tapeworms; It wasn’t an unusual situation for a wild chimpanzee in Uganda’s Budongo Forest. What intrigued the monitoring research team was what the monkey was doing about it. Shortly after the symptoms appeared, the man, along with two others, went to an area of the forest where… Read More »