Treating wounds with insects: the strange habits of Gabon chimps

8th February 2022

Chimpanzees have invented a more creative method: catching insects and applying them directly to the open wound.

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A female chimpanzee, Roxy, grooms an adult male chimpanzee named Thea in Loango National Park in western Gabon, Africa. Photo by Tobias Deschner - AFP
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How to treat a wound?

For humans, the first instinct would be to disinfect it and then cover it with a bandage.

But chimpanzees have invented a more creative method: catching insects 

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