{"id":614866,"date":"2026-09-29T01:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614866\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:26:29","slug":"elephants-treat-themselves-with-medicinal-plants-witnesses-say-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/614866\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiW0FVX3lxTE5XMjB1ZURKaXB4QWlybzMxYlVDZ251TFJHM05PaGU0YWJaQ3NoblEtZmVBY25Vbk9obHhsU01FTTBkVnYxUmZ4UEJ2MlEybkhST08yN3V3TUlZX2s?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxOWU1oYWxLcGJiUEhWZHFoM0c0VktBMGEtZEtkZW9wcnh1UVRodzR6LWRxekNfcWNLbGFoUFpXZjFnRkJVM1ZZQUlrY0NYMXhzUF9DQXpnQkotYVlQbWpCWG12MWFCSmtLWFZMSmd2UGlRZ3FCbUVjY25TbU9FejcyVXNZUjE1YU4tTEFTQkplQVVNRDZmM2hUMTdwYjVsUXJWQXU0aXhfdE1ITHBtUTYxRHVIQ2JrTjZnZ3ZXNzJuVmY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wild African Elephants Found To Self-Medicate And Feed Their Calves Immunization Smoothies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;IFLScience<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxPakstcEtNU2w4QTZQYlA2cEktRS1DM1JHbW9MMkh1WEp5TFdoQTNRNEtDZUstUGg1Z3hGRFpneTUzTEM1a1lSTkNXb0FFNmpGeUEtUW4xaktPWXN1ZFJOZVc5M29QbVlFa3NZLXNKZXN6a2E3OW15VEdXd1p1OXZRM2RiT0JGdXlnOXMxV3FDWTN2VnF6Z3dBNURRcFNTOEpXbVU0UURYNWprVzcwRFlF?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elephants in Kenya May Be Foraging for Their Own Medicine and Mixing \u2018Immunizations\u2019 for Their Calves, Study Finds<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;People.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijAFBVV95cUxPT2swRE1HNTBPVW9UZTh6NGotcUFoeDNuRUtaNTRsVFBqQThZNTl4ZTdURDJIU0RLQjBBeGFVRWE4SDJZRFpNanJTUmFCVzNhWHFDRncwWWI4eG9qcmR0SnNQUzlVTVdiOTl6RERGQkhnSjk0dlNOMERtV3AyWkxyQVJySl9XbG5NbFVNWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">African elephants and medicinal plants: Possible self-medication documented through local ecological knowledge<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Phys.org<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiX0FVX3lxTE1CSTNUWDRka1RmTmgxU3l1bnQzdDkwY1dlZlhMcmc0QjFzeGFRNWRDTU1RRkFlLWhDRTY3WEhlcHNGdFQ4VW16UjBCSXJOaHFFSmtMcjJPc21Oc2o4em40?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">African elephants putatively self-medicate with medicinal plants in the Mount Elgon region, Kenya | Scientific Reports<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Nature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCWild African Elephants Found To Self-Medicate And Feed Their Calves Immunization&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-614866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}