Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Watch: wild chimpanzees filmed using forest ‘first aid’ Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants – in multiple ways – to treat open wounds and other injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals...
Pamela Tickell BBC News, North East and Cumbria Jake Brooker / Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust Chimpanzees consoled each other by embracing, holding hands, and touching, researchers found Chimpanzees comfort each other when in distress, despite typically being referred to as “violent” and “despotic” when compared to other apes. Researchers at Durham University found that chimpanzees...