{"id":9434,"date":"2025-05-14T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9434"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:16:02","slug":"chimpanzees-use-medicinal-leaves-to-perform-first-aid-scientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/14\/chimpanzees-use-medicinal-leaves-to-perform-first-aid-scientists-discover\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimpanzees use medicinal leaves to perform first aid, scientists discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-chimpanzees-medicinal-aid-scientists.html\">Phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists studying chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, Uganda, have observed that these primates don&#8217;t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too\u2014information which could shed light on how our ancestors first began treating wounds and using medicines. Although chimpanzees elsewhere have been observed helping other community members with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+problems\/\">medical problems<\/a>, the persistent presence of this behavior in Budongo could suggest that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/medical+care\/\">medical care<\/a>\u00a0among chimpanzees is much more widespread than we realized, and not confined to care for close relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-chimpanzees-medicinal-aid-scientists.html\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phys.org Scientists studying chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, Uganda, have observed that these primates don&#8217;t just treat their own injuries, but care for others, too\u2014information which could shed light on how our ancestors first began treating wounds and using medicines. Although chimpanzees elsewhere have been observed helping other community members with\u00a0medical problems, the persistent presence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9434\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}