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A study from Uganda’s Budongo Forest draws on decades of data suggesting chimpanzees understand the specific medicinal properties of certain plants and will go out of their way to treat the maladies of their peers.
Here & Now‘s Asma Khalid spoke with primatologist Elodie Freymann in May about these health care-related behaviors, whether they are instinctive or learned, and the implications for our closest evolutionary relatives.
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