Wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'23 hours ago Share Save Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Share SaveWatch: wild chimpanzees filmed using forest 'first aid'Chimpanzees in Uganda have been observed using medicinal plants - in multiple ways - to treat open wounds and other injuries. University of Oxford scientists, working with a local team in the Budongo Forest, filmed and recorded incidents of the animals using plants for first aid, both on themselves and occasionally on each other. The scientists also compiled decades of scientific observations to create a catalogue of the different ways in which chimpanzees use "forest first aid". This is particularly exciting, explained Dr Freymann, "because it adds to the evidence that wild chimpanzees have the capacity for empathy". Elodie Freymann Researcher Dr Elodie Freymann follows and observes wild chimpanzees to record their natural behaviour