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post 1655812953 02-08-2022, 08:34 AM
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Chimpanzees give each other medical assistance (new discovery)

source:https://www.rt.com/news/548617-chimp...ication-study/

Researchers in Gabon observed an ape using crushed bugs to treat her son’s injury

A team of researchers from Osnabruck University in Germany claim to have observed a behavior in chimpanzees that was previously thought to be specific to humans: giving each other medical assistance. The findings were reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday.

Many species of animals are known to engage in self-medication, by doing things like eating medicinal plants when they become ill. However, treating others’ ailments was long thought to be something that only we humans do. The group of researchers, who study a colony of chimpanzees at the Ozouga Chimpanzee Project in Gabon’s Loango National Park, say our species is not that unique after all.

The apes demonstrated on many occasions the same approach to fresh open injuries. They would catch an insect and rub it into the wound before removing the bug. The team saw over 20 such cases over a period of more than one year between 2019 and 2021.

In four of those sessions, the apes cooperated to apply the treatment. Two of the instances involved an adult female named Suzee, who used insects on her adolescent son’s injury.

In another case, a female was grooming around an injury on the calf of another chimp named Littlegrey. She caught an insect and handed it over to the male, who rubbed it on the wound surface. In a fourth case, an adult male applied an insect to another injury that Littlegrey had.

Paper co-author Simone Pika, who is a cognitive biologist, believes the observations clearly point to chimpanzees having prosocial behaviors, meaning they exert efforts that benefit others but not themselves.

“For me, being interested in the cognitive skills of chimpanzees, it was particularly striking to witness that individuals not only treat their own but also the wounds of other non-related individuals,” she said.



I thought this was pretty interesting. Our closest cousins are getting closer and closer.
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
Does rubbing bugs into cuts actually help?
Sounds like Chimpscience
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
Does rubbing bugs into cuts actually help?
This wtf?
Do they know more than we do?
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i heard that some chimps have entered the stone age
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How do they know they weren't trying to infect the wound and knock the chimp off early?
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
Does rubbing bugs into cuts actually help?
Not sure. But in Chinese medicine, they use a lot of bugs.
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a chimpanzee performing surgery?
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Originally Posted By Duckliver⏩
Sounds like Chimpscience
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why didnt it just get the vaccine?
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
Does rubbing bugs into cuts actually help?
Probably not-but then again humans do lots of stupid stuff based on old wives tales rather than seek medical help. Like the 'new' HIV in Holland that has actually been around for decades I have little doubt this has been happening in the wild forever as well.
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
If rubbing bugs in cuts actually did help that would be an even bigger discovery because that would mean they saw an association between using bugs and injury healing.
Well most scientists are midwits

JFL at actually saying a mother chimp gets no benefit from helping her offspring survive and produce offspring themselves. Middle of the bell curve stuff.
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