Chimpanzees found treating wounds with insects, furthering debate about animal empathy

It's been long known chimpanzees are an evolving and smart species, but have they learned how to use their own medicine to treat wounds? One study says they have.

Chimpanzees are catching insects and placing them directly onto a wound, according to a study in Current Biology.

Scientists analyzed behavior in chimpanzees in the west African nation of Gabon and noted the animals treat their wounds and others using insects.

The act was first noticed in in 2019 in an adult female chimpanzee named Suzee who placed the insect on her son. She caught an insect in the air, placed it in her mouth, "squeezed the insect" and placed it on her son's wound, according to the study.

Researchers found chimpanzees were soothing others wounds not for their benefit but in act of empathy for others pain. Simone Pika, a biologist at the University of Osnabruck in Germany and a co-author of the study, told The New York Times they were acting with “the welfare of another being” in mind.

“With every field site we learn more about chimps,” Pike told The New York Times. “They really surprise us.”

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