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Elephants use medicinal plants to treat themselves, researchers find. Accounts from local wildlife scouts & community elders described elephants selecting particular plants when they seemed unwell & mothers reportedly giving medicinal plant material to their calves. 🧪🐘 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukElephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses sayAfrican elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

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