Wild chimpanzees withdrawn using the “first aid” forest

The chimpanzees in Uganda were observed using medicinal plants – several ways – for the treatment of open wounds and other injuries.

The University of Oxford University, which works with the local team in the forest of construction, shot and recorded the incidents of animals, using plants for first aid, both on itself and on itself.

Their research is based on the opening last year that chimpanzees are looking and traveling certain plants to self -medicate.

Scientists have also collected decades of scientific observations to create a catalog of different ways in which the chimpanzees use “forest first”.

Researchers say the study published in the magazine Bounds in ecology and evolutionIt adds to an increasing amount of evidence that primates, including chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas, use natural medicines in a number of ways to remain healthy in the wild.

Leading researcher Elodi Freyan explained that “a whole behavioral repertoire used when they are sick or injured in the wild – to treat themselves and maintain hygiene.”

“Some of them include the use of plants that can be found here,” she explained. “The chimpanzees are applied to wounds or chewing the plants up, and then apply the murdic material to an open trauma.”

The researchers studied the staff of a very young, female chimpanzee, which chewed the materials and used it to an injury on the mother’s body.

They also found chimpanzee recordings that sought the wounds of other animals they were not associated with. This is especially exciting, Dr. Freiman explained, “because it adds evidence that wild chimpanzees have the ability to empathize.”

Some of the hundreds of written observations studied by Dr. Freiman and her colleagues have left the magazine’s book at a field station in a forest location in the northwest of Kamla’s capital.

This record of anecdotal evidence dates from the 1990s – local field staff, researchers and visitors that described any interesting behavior they watched.

In this book, the leaves on injuries and chimpanzees that help other chimpanzees help other chimpanzees remove the networks.

There are some amazing as human hygienic habits: one note describes the chimpanzees using the leaves to wipe itself after defecation.

This team of researchers had previously identified some plants that chimpanzees searched and ate when they were injured. Scientists have accepted samples of these plants, experienced them and found that most had antibacterial properties.

Chimpanzees are not the only inhuman monkeys that have obvious knowledge of herbal medicine. A recent study has shown a wild orangaan that uses the chewed leaf material to cure the face wound.

Scientists believe that the study of this behavior of a wild monkey – and understands more about the plants that chimpanzees use when they are sick or injured – can help find new medicines.

“The more we learn about the behavior and intelligence of the chimpanzee, the more I think we understand how little we are, as people, in fact we know about the natural world,” said D -Ranno BBC News.

“If I were in this forest without food and without medication, I doubt that I can survive a very long time, especially if I had suffered or sick.”

“But the chimpanzees bloom here because they know how to access the secrets of this place and how to find everything you need to survive from the environment.”