An adult chimpanzee named Suzee was seen medicating the wound of her adolescent son Sia, using insects in the process. This behaviour was found amongst the chimpanzees in Loango National Park in Gabon.
The incident was reported by a group of researchers in Current Biology in February 2022 and is considered the first of such behaviours among our closest relatives in the animal kingdom.
This research finding is a clear demonstration of prosocial behaviours in other species that involve empathy, which, for a long time, was considered only a human trait.
This instance of voluntarily helping others in non-human primates throws open a new vista in our understanding of the evolution of our own social behaviour in anthropology.
Read on the original article here. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221017322
Kartic Godavarthy 
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