Two decades, Jaap de Roode He made a discovery that changed his scientific career. While researching the ecology and evolution of parasites and their hosts, he found something to really surprise: the butterfly butterflies that were learning seemed to exploit the medicinal properties of plants.
Then a notion that an insect can be self-medicine seemed distant. Now, de Roode is an expert in the world that bury the animal medication area, at the University of Emory University in Atlanta, at Emory University in Georgia. He spoke New scientist About his work, new book, Doctors by nature: How sensators, apples and other animals are healedAnd the animals believe that they have knowledge of medicinal plants that we can use to improve our health.
Autoprocations of Fireplace and Wool Bear Caterpillars have also been studied (below)
Michael a Huffman
Graham Lawton: How did the field of research go hard to go?
Jaap de Roode: He started working in Tanzania with an observation in the 1980s. He was working with the University of Kyoto Michael Huffman Mohamedi Seifu Kalunde, Ranger in the National Park, to study the role of older chimpanzees in society. He was monitoring called Chausiku, noticed that he was retiring, he was taking over the day and he had diarrhea. They saw that he would go to a plant called VernonThe bitter leaf is also known. Remove the skin and began to suck the hole. That’s not usually a part of their diet. Seifu, it was also a traditional healer, said Huffman used as he used to …
