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.
Their research builds on the discovery last year that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.
The scientists also compiled decades of scientific observations to create a catalogue of the different ways in which chimpanzees use "forest first aid".
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