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Researchers describe cases of chimps tending to others\u2019 wounds, as well as a chimp that freed another from a snare<\/h2>\n
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A new study suggests chimpanzees don’t just perform self-care\u2014in some cases, they look out for each other.
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Chimpanzees use medicinal plants to perform first aid on others, according to a new study that points toward the origin of health care in humans.<\/p>\n

Researchers combined 30 years of written observations of chimpanzees in Uganda\u2019s Budongo Forest with eight months of their collected data and suggest the animals provide care\u2014not just to themselves, but to other chimpanzees.<\/p>\n

Overall, they documented 41 cases of medical care in the animals. Most involved instances of the chimpanzees practicing self-care and hygiene, such as using a leaf to wipe themselves after an excretion or chewing a plant and applying it to a wound. But seven of the instances involved chimpanzees providing care to others, and in four of those cases, the animals weren\u2019t closely related. The work was published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution<\/em><\/a> <\/em>this week.<\/p>\n

The study challenges assumptions about non-human animals\u2019 ability to provide altruistic care, write the authors.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things humans have clung onto is that we\u2019re this very special species, because we are capable of altruism and we\u2019re capable of empathy,\u201d says Elodie Freymann<\/a>, a primatologist at the University of Oxford in England and lead author of the study, to Evan Bush at NBC News<\/a>. \u201cAnimals are helping each other out. They\u2019re capable of identifying others in need and then addressing those specific needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chimpanzees use medicinal leaves to perform first aid, scientists discover<\/p>\n

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