They are the nature of hospitals and pharmacies: chimpanzees use forest « first aid » – BBC News in Serbian
Chimpanzees in Uganda have been recorded using medicinal plants, in several ways, for treating open wounds and other injuries.
During a research that followed last year’s discovery that chimpons are aware of and eaten certain plants for self-exception, scientists followed and watched these animals to determine how they were borne with injuries.
Scientists from the University of Oxford, in cooperation with the team from the Budong forest, recorded chimpanzees as used by plants as « forest first aid », both on them, occasionally on other individuals of their kind.
Their study, which included the analysis of multi-decenium records of other researchers, is transcended in the catalog of various ways used by chimpanzees to use natural forest sources for care and treatment.
Researchers state that this study, published in a professional journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolutionprovides additional evidence to receive, including chimpanzees, orangutani and gorillas, use natural drugs in different ways to preserve health in the wild.
The leading researcher Elodi Frejmen explains that there is an « whole repertoire of behavior that apply chimp when sick or injured to independently treat and maintain hygiene. »
« Some of these behaviors involve the use of plants that grow here in the woods.
« Chimpanzees are placed directly on the wounds or I will first summarize them, and then the sacred plant material applies to the open wound ».
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The researchers analyzed a video of a very young female chimpanzees that chewing the plants and then applied to the wound on her mother’s body.
They also found records of chimpanzes that treated the wounds of other individuals with whom were not related.
It is, as explained by Dr. Freumen, especially exciting « because it provides additional evidence that chimpanzees in the wild have empathy. »
Some of the hundreds of written observations that Dr. Frejmen and her colleagues were studied from the field of field station in the forest budong.
This diary contains an anecdotal data from the 1990s.
It is a book to which local associates, researchers and visitors recorded descriptions of interesting behavior of chimpanzias for years.
In that book, there are stories about chimpanzam that put on the wounds on the wounds and help other individuals remove traps from their limbs.
Some stunning habits of maintaining hygiene reminded about humanity are also recorded.
One record in the field book describes the chimp that uses the sheets for deletion after performing great emergency.
This research team has previously identified some of the plants consciously sought and ate when they were injured.
Scientists took samples of these plants, examined them and discovered that most have antibacterial properties.
Chimpanzees are not the only manual monkeys showing knowledge of plant medicine.
The recent study documented orangutan in the wild, which used the chewing plant material for the treatment of wounds on the face.
Scientists believe that the study of these monkeys in the wild, as well as a deeper understanding of plants that use when they are sick or injured, it can help in search of new medications.
Dr. Elodi Freummen for BBC News says that the more we learn about the behavior and intelligence of chimpanzees, « we understand how much people, in fact, know a little about the world of nature ».
« If someone left me here now, in this forest without food and medication, I doubt I would survive for a long time, especially if I was injured or ill. »
« But Chimpanzam here, because they know how to approach the secrets of this place and how to find everything they need to survive in their environment. »
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