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 ...

Researchers monitoring chimpanzee communities in the Budongo Forest, Uganda, noticed that individuals were helping each other ...

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

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 ...

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

Researchers have documented surprising behavior among chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest in Uganda: not only do they treat their own wounds, but they also help other members of their group—even when ...

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

The chimps use the leaves to treat their own injuries and tend the wounds of others. According to results published in the ...

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 ...