Publications by authors named "Elodie Freymann"
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- Wild chimpanzees in Uganda's Budongo Forest consume a wide range of plants, some of which may offer medicinal benefits despite being nutritionally poor or toxic.
- The study examined 17 plant samples linked to self-medication behaviors in chimpanzees, finding that many extracts showed significant antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties in lab tests.
- Specifically, the strongest antibacterial effects were noted in extracts from Alstonia boonei and Khaya anthotheca, indicating that these chimpanzees may use these plants to combat infections.
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- Identifying medicinal resources in chimpanzee diets is challenging due to the need for detailed behavioral data and costly pharmacological analyses, often overlooking combinations of resources that may enhance treatment effectiveness.
- The study introduces the "self-medicative resource combination hypothesis," suggesting that different combinations of ingested resources could improve health outcomes for chimpanzees.
- Two analytical tools (collocation and APRIORI analyses) are presented to explore these resource combinations, with results from the Sonso chimpanzee community showing up to 60% agreement, indicating that APRIORI may be better for studying complex interactions among multiple resources.
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- * This study adds five new interspecies grooming observations involving female chimpanzees and members of the Cercopithecus genus, along with a unique play interaction between juvenile chimpanzees and a red-tailed monkey.
- * The research explores the potential functions, costs, and benefits of interspecies grooming, suggesting it could provide insights into chimpanzee social behavior and their ability to navigate different species interactions.
It has been suggested that non-human primates can respond to deceased conspecifics in ways that suggest they experience psychological states not unlike humans, some of which could indicate they exhibit a notion of death. Here, we report long-term demographic data from two East African chimpanzee groups. During a combined 40-year observation period, we recorded 191 births of which 68 died in infancy, mostly within the first year.
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