Researchers in Uganda’s Budongo Forest document chimpanzees' use of medicinal plants and care methods to heal injuries.

A new report published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution provides fresh clues on the origin of human ...

Chimpanzees use forest first aid to treat wounds and leaves to wipe their bottoms, scientists have found. A study, led by a University of Oxford researcher, catalogued the apes dabbing leaves on their ...

One of the pieces of evidence provided by the research is the footage of a very young female chimpanzee chewing on plants ...

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

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"We found that participants who increased their intake of flavonoid-rich food by three servings a day had a 6% to 11% lower ...

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

University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the ...

In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have been caught on camera doing something startlingly human: treating each ...

Scientists studying two communities of chimpanzees, known as Sonso and Waibira, have discovered that these primates use ...

Some chimpanzees treated wounds with chewed leaves, while others pressed their fingers to injuries or helped remove snares ...