Bonobo apes are experts in using rainforest plants as medicine. But they’re now endangered because of poaching and deforestation. Will the secrets of the rainforest die with them? Find out in: RAIN FOREST PHARMACY – MEDICINE FROM THE JUNGLE.
Dr Barbara Fruth is in the Democratic Republic of Congo to study the apes and learn more about the rainforest pharmacy. Her team of international researchers is in a race against time – can they finish their work before the apes’ medical knowledge is lost forever?
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Its look like bonobo developed the sence of smell and feel after they eat or we humans loosing our power of sence…
Learn from them? are you nuts? our amazing pharmaceutical companies will never allow that you try if you dare
Picking up and wrapping feces in a rubber glove. I would find another way to make a living, mach schnell.
Human beings r so evil and seem to destroy Everything around them! One day we r going to pay a heavy price and we will deserve everything we get! 😡😭😡
Would they still jump from joy over a plant based discovery that turned out to be a competitor to an expensive patented drug one might wonder.
Compared to the bonobo, we humans are the agressive savages
I'm afraid if they find something new they will destroy the remaining jungle to mass market it! Knowing big pharma they will rip off the locals and desimate their way of life!
what about the ppl that cant hunt the ppl they call poachers are hunting and reselling to ppl that can only buy and not hunt so how is that poaching that's capitalism
if i had to look at bonobo feces all day, i would go apeshit *shot*
interesting video! 👍🏻