Elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves, researchers find
African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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"This shows just how entangled our medicines are with the non-human world."
— Dr Elodie Freymann , Academic
"Local knowledge has given us a map."
— Dr Fabien Schultz , Academic
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Lead researcher from Brown University studying elephants' use of medicinal plants.
Researcher from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine involved in the elephant study.
Primatologist based in Japan who commented on elephants' self-medication behavior.
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African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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