Always best to go to a scientific source with this sort of thing, because mainstream media outlets often get science details wrong. I'm still reading the Nature article, but that is where I would get the story from.
Don't we already have lots of evidence of animals using medicine? Sorry, I'm confused as to how this is a first? Is it just that it was a wound specifically?
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y
Always best to go to a scientific source with this sort of thing, because mainstream media outlets often get science details wrong. I'm still reading the Nature article, but that is where I would get the story from.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01289-w
Maven@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 2y
Very true. I updated the link in the post.
Gikiski@fedia.io · 19 pts · 2y
"Dr. Zaius, I presume."
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y
Do you want humans?
This is how you get humans.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Maurice has entered the chat
iheartneopets@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y
https://www.the-scientist.com/study-suggests-dolphins-use-coral-mucus-as-medicine-70036
Don't we already have lots of evidence of animals using medicine? Sorry, I'm confused as to how this is a first? Is it just that it was a wound specifically?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
It's the first evidence of an animal treating a wound with a medicinal plant. They need to make that clearer.
yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y
https://primatology.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/
Sumatran Orangutans also use hand tools while Orangutans from Borneo do not.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Please say it was coca
sirico@feddit.uk · -7 pts · 2y
Cool cut the trees