Sick Sheep Eat Their Way to Better Health

Fascinating report from Science Network Western Australia (link). I imagine it being similar to Orangutans eating certain leaves to cure stomach aches. I guess very creature seems to have their instinctive way to keeping themselves healthy. Makes me wonder about natural remedies out there in the wild instead of depending on my medicine cabinet.

Sick Sheep Eat Their Way to Better Health!: "

Australian scientists found out how sick sheep heal themselves: they eat things that make them feel better, and they learn it from their moms!

Sheep, he says, are smarter than we think. 'There is something called nutritional wisdom and it means that sheep, like other animals,have the capacity to make a choice,' he says. …

‘It could be that sheep need certain medicinal paddocks where we take them to self-medicate … or it could be that they need ongoing low-level intakes of certain plants to keep parasites at bay,’ he says.

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(Via Neatorama.)

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