Animal Pharm: How Animals Self-Medicate
After doing an email interview with primatologist Mark Bowler about the red uakari
monkey (Nature's Bald-Headed and Hairless Animals) I saw his video about monkeys medicating themselves with fruit and onions...not eating them but using them as bug repellent. I looked around and found that a lot of animals are their own doctors, instinctively or intelligently using plants to cure and prevent problems from tummy aches to parasites. Check 'em out: Animal Pharm: How Animals Self-Medicate on NatGeo.
monkey (Nature's Bald-Headed and Hairless Animals) I saw his video about monkeys medicating themselves with fruit and onions...not eating them but using them as bug repellent. I looked around and found that a lot of animals are their own doctors, instinctively or intelligently using plants to cure and prevent problems from tummy aches to parasites. Check 'em out: Animal Pharm: How Animals Self-Medicate on NatGeo.
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