African elephants may forage for plants to use as medicine, Brown-affiliated study says

 

(Posted 02nd November 2026)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

Justin Gao, Brown Daily Herald (U.S.), October 30, 2026
Humans have long turned to herbs and other plants to feel better when ill. But according to a new study, sick African elephants in Kenya’s Mount Elgon region may do the same thing. In the study, coauthored by Brown post-doctoral fellow Elodie Freymann ’18 and published in Nature Scientific Reports, researchers shed light on how African elephants deliberately find and use medicinal plants.
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