ScienceAlert on MSN3 个月
The Plants Gorillas Eat Could Harbor Powerful Antimicrobial Properties
All four plants showed antibacterial activity against ... We also don't know for sure that the gorillas are eating bark from ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN8 天
From Chimps Eating Medicinal Plants to Footprints Tracking Our Early Relatives, Here Are ...
Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...
IFLScience on MSN3 个月
Self-Medicating Gorillas Use Same Antibacterial Plant As Traditional Healers
F inding new drugs isn’t an easy task, but new research in which wild gorillas were found to be eating the same plants used ...
BBC4 个月
Self-medicating gorillas may hold new drugs clues
"This suggests that gorillas evolved to eat plants that benefit them, and highlights the huge gaps in our knowledge of the Central African rainforests," said Dr Joanna Setchell, an anthropologist ...
EurekAlert!2 年
Sampling plants for gorillas (IMAGE)
Tierra Smiley Evans from UC Davis and Gorilla Doctor Fred Nizeyimana collect saliva samples from chewed plants discarded by mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Forest in 2013. Credit must be ...