naure.com
AnimalsSurprise 5/5Difficulty 4/5Reviewed on September 13, 2026

Wild chimpanzees were filmed using plants as medicine to treat wounds.

Why it is true

In 2025, researchers filmed wild chimpanzees in Uganda applying crushed insects and plants to open wounds. The behaviour, never before documented with this clarity, suggests that primates possess pharmacological knowledge passed between generations.

Source: British Ecological Society

Would you rather be asked first?

This is the reading side of the site, so the answer is in the sentence above — that is the whole point of it. Test yourself works the other way round: the question comes on its own, and the fact and the explanation only appear once you have answered.

Test yourself →10-question challenge

Related facts

More in Animals

See all →