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Wild chimpanzees give first aid to each other

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Thirty years of observations in Uganda ’s Budongo Forest reveal that chimp-administered health care happens frequently.

Licking wounds and dabbing them with leaves were the most observed acts of self-care.

Chimps’ healing ways also hint at the possible origins of a similar impulse in humans.

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