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Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia

  • Written by Adrienne Mayor, Research Scholar, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millenniaA goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany.O. Dapper, CC BY

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him.

The animal chewed the leaves of a liana vine – a plant not normally eaten by...

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