Robert Roy Britt on Nostr: Chimpanzees eat a lot of different sorts of plants, so it can be hard to know why ...
Chimpanzees eat a lot of different sorts of plants, so it can be hard to know why they pick one over another. But when scientists in Uganda observed wild chimps that were sick or injured eating plants the healthy chimps eschewed, a light bulb went off. Were the chimps self-medication? And can we learn something from them?
https://ahascience.substack.com/p/chimps-apparently-self-medicate#animals #nature #science #medicine
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