May 24 (UPI) --Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY ...

Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it – and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can ...

A study published in Science by researchers from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles revealed that mice exhibit behaviors resembling first aid. Researchers observed mice pulling ...

Animals sometimes seek new foods because illness has affected their tastes—leading them to medicate with foods they normally avoid.

Wild quail populations have been dwindling, but a new medication holds promise for restoring the bird's numbers in Texas. As OutdoorLife reported, Texas Tech University researchers developed a ...