{"id":78305,"date":"2025-05-14T14:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/chimpanzees-in-uganda-use-medicinal-plants-as-first-aid-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:47:08","slug":"chimpanzees-in-uganda-use-medicinal-plants-as-first-aid-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/chimpanzees-in-uganda-use-medicinal-plants-as-first-aid-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimpanzees in Uganda use medicinal plants as &#8216;first aid&#8217; | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants &#8211; in multiple ways &#8211; to treat open wounds and other <!--more--> injuries.<\/p>\n<p>University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals using plants for first aid, both on themselves and occasionally on each other.<\/p>\n<p>Their research builds on the discovery last year that chimps seek out and eat certain plants to self-medicate.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists also compiled decades of scientific observations to create a catalogue of the different ways in which chimpanzees use &#8220;forest first aid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants &#8211; in multiple ways &#8211; to treat open wounds and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}