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

A new study finds humanity's closest living relatives will chew plants and apply makeshift poultices to wounds, and use ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

Chimps in the wild use medicinal leaves to perform "First Aid" on their friends and family, reveals new research. They also ...

This line of research, broadly, suggests that primates are capable of finding and determining the medicinal value of plants. “Chimpanzees rely on the forest, not just for food, and not just for ...