Sick as a Parrot
Valerie Curtis and Alison Jolly: Animal self-medication, 10 July 2003
Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them
by Cindy Engel.
Weidenfeld, 276 pp., £20, January 2003,0 297 64684 2 Show More
by Cindy Engel.
Weidenfeld, 276 pp., £20, January 2003,
“... account of Chausiki’s cure was one of the first scientific reports of animal self-medication. Cindy Engel tells the story well in Wild Health, a wonderful collection of tales about the ways in which animals prevent and cure ill-health. A general in Han Dynasty China noticed that sick horses gained vigour from eating Plantago asiatica, and fed it with ... ”
