Medical Care and Hygiene among Chimpanzees Much More Widespread than Thought

May 14, 2025 - 14:15
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Medical Care and Hygiene among Chimpanzees Much More Widespread than Thought
Social grooming between two chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. Image credit: Elodie Freymann.

Primatologists have documented and analyzed both previously reported and newly observed instances of self-directed and other-directed wound care, snare removal, and putatively medicinal hygiene behaviors in the Sonso and Waibira chimpanzee communities of the Budongo Forest in Uganda.

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