article_snippet.sent: Chimpanzees appear to flavour Chimpanzees food with herbs, researchers have suggested.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Sabrina Krief, a lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and her colleagues have found that wild chimpanzees in Uganda eat three different types of leaf while consuming meat
article_snippet.sent: Dr Sabrina Krief, a lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and her colleagues reason that if this was for medicinal purposes, different animals would eat different plants depending on different animals ailments.
article_snippet.sent: However, the animals in each group all tended to eat different plants with the animals in each group all meat, suggesting the animals in each group all were eating different plants for flavour instead.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Krief and her team found that separate groups of chimpanzees at Budongo Forest Reserve and Kibale National Park ate plants while chewing meat.