Wild chimps eat medicinal plants to treat illness and injuries, reveals new research. Sick chimpanzees consume tree bark, dead wood and ferns with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory effects, say ...
Scientists are uncovering the healing power of plants with help from an unlikely source: chimpanzees. For years, researchers at the University of Oxford have taken samples of plants favored by injured ...
April 22 (UPI) --A team of British researchers studying chimpanzees in West Africa said they have documented the primates eating and sharing alcoholic fruit. The University of Exeter team said cameras ...
Chimps Consume the Equivalent of 2.5 Alcoholic Drinks per Day by Eating Fermented Fruit, Study Finds
Chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park love eating figs, which scientists found had the highest level of alcohol at the site. Aleksey Maro / UC Berkeley Wild chimpanzees consume vast amounts of ...
Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 7, 2025. Click here for that audio. Scientists studying chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest of Uganda noticed the creatures seem to be administering a ...
Wildlife like chimpanzees have started consuming bat excrement — guano — in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. After analyzing samples, scientists found that the guano not only held high concentrations of ...
Wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing fruit containing alcohol. For the first time, wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing fruit containing alcohol. A research team ...
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Chimps Consume the Equivalent of 2.5 Alcoholic Drinks per Day by Eating Fermented Fruit, Study Finds
Wild chimpanzees consume vast amounts of fruit every day. Some of these fruits, however, are very ripe and fermented—making them “boozy,” with high levels of ethanol. As it turns out, that means the ...
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