Nice apes are recognized to self-medicate by choosing crops with therapeutic properties.
A wounded orangutan not too long ago made headlines for utilizing a plant paste to heal an harm.
Within the newest examine, botanists recorded the crops eaten by western lowland gorillas in Gabon’s Moukalaba-Doudou Nationwide Park.
They chose 4 bushes that have been prone to be helpful, primarily based on interviews with native healers: the fromager tree (Ceiba pentandra), large yellow mulberry (Myrianthus arboreus), African teak (Milicia excelsa) and fig bushes (Ficus).
The bark of the bushes – utilized in conventional medication to deal with all the pieces from abdomen complaints to infertility – contained chemical compounds with medicinal results, from phenols to flavonoids.