Geojoek, 1 month ago

@ai6yr

Awesome! And one would think think BBC would do a 1 minute search to avoid that headline: animals self-medicating Is something that’s been observed for millennia. Heck, I remember reading about it in a biology textbook in the 1990s / it’s been long postulated that that is where humans learned plant medicine from a million years ago.

Anyway:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1235824

https://blog.nature.org/2016/06/20/self-medication-wildlife-style-how-birds-creatures-medicinal-plants/