Reply To: Instincts

[Anonymous]

https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/1994/Animal-Heal-Thyself#:~:text=Zoopharmacognosy%20is%20the%20new%20field’s,medicinal%20plants%20to%20treat%20illness.

Zoopharmacognosy is the new field’s mouthful of a name. Coined in 1987 by Rodriguez and colleague Richard Wrangham, a Harvard University anthropologist, the term refers to animal use of medicinal plants to treat illness. Like headache-afflicted humans rummaging through medicine cabinets, several species of animals are now known to seek out (if often instinctively) plants that have various medicinal properties.

I wonder why we lost these abilities