Indigenous knowledge proves key in a study of plants gorillas use to self-medicate
Seeking plants with potential medical properties, a team of researchers in Gabon looked to the practices of two distinct...
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Self-Medicating Gorillas Use Same Antibacterial Plant As Traditional Healers
Finding new drugs isn’t an easy task, but new research in which wild gorillas were found to be eating the...
Self-medicating gorillas may hold clues to new drugs
Getty ImagesFewer than 150,000 western lowland gorillas survive in the wild in Central and West AfricaSelf-medicating gorillas may hold clues...
Four plants eaten by gorillas, also used in traditional medicine, provide clues for new drug discovery
Graphical abstract of the study. Credit: Yinda et al., CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Four plants consumed by wild gorillas in Gabon...
