Chimp, heal thyself

Some chimp news:

“The chimps and human beings around Kibale use similar plants to overcome sickness,” Sabrina Kreif, a researcher, said. She was speaking at Makerere University’s Faculty of Science at a ceremony to launch a memorandum of cooperation between Uganda Wildlife Authority and French institutions.

Motivation to use medicinal plants would, of course, be dependent on the ability to reflect mentally on how one "felt," an ability to associate the awareness of that state with a given plant, and the state (potentially) achieved through treatment. Other forms of self-diagnosis and treatment quite probably exist in chimps and other animals.

Full article available here: Chimps, healers use same herbs