{"id":1530,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/self-medicating-gorillas-could-help-find-future-drugs\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:11","slug":"self-medicating-gorillas-could-help-find-future-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/self-medicating-gorillas-could-help-find-future-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-medicating gorillas could help find future drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2024-09-13 15:42:05<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Self-medicating gorillas could provide the key to the discovery of future drugs.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers in Gabon have studied the tropical plants eaten by wild gorillas and used by human healers in the African nation and have identified four that have medicinal effects.<BR><br \/>\nStudies in the laboratory have revealed that the plants are high in both antioxidants and antimicrobials &#8211; with one even showing promise in fighting superbugs.<BR><br \/>\nThe primates are known to self-medicate using plants with healing properties and botanists found that four trees in the Gabonese rainforest showed antibacterial activity against at least one strain of the E.coli bug.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Joanna Satchell, who worked on the study for the University of Durham in the UK, told BBC News: &#8220;This suggests that gorillas evolved to eat plants that benefit them, and highlights the huge gaps in our knowledge of the Central African rainforests.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangpremier.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Visit Bang Premier (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024-09-13 15:42:05 Self-medicating gorillas could provide the key to the discovery of future drugs. Researchers in Gabon have studied the tropical plants eaten by wild gorillas and used by human&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}