Treating Wounds with Insects: The Strange Habits of Gabon Chimps

A female chimpanzee helps an adult male in Loango National Park, Gabon, in an undated photo taken by researcher Tobias Deschner Tobias Deschner AFP/File

For humans, the first instinct would be to disinfect it and then cover it with a bandage.

But chimpanzees have invented a more creative method: catching insects and applying them directly to the open wound.