Gum arabica is a local commercial nutraceutical and food preservative collected mostly from
acacia plants. HPLC-DAD analysis identified gallic acid, syringic acid, ferulic acid, coumarin …

Cassia species have a long history of utilization in various traditional medicine systems
worldwide, and they are widely consumed for medicinal purposes, particularly the officinal …

More than 1300 species of the vast genus Acacia are found in tropical habitats. They are
crucial economic plants since they produce traditional medicines, timber, and gum. The …

Animal self‐medication is thought to provide an adaptive advantage, as species would
actively respond to a disease state or homeostatic imbalances. In wild nonhuman primates …

Background Chronic inflammatory diseases, such as chronic respiratory diseases, stroke,
cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity, kill six out of every ten people in the …

Acacia sieberiana DC. var. woodii or Vachellia sieberiana var. woodii (Burtt Davy) Kyal. &
Boatwr. is a plant used in Cameroon to treat several diseases such as bilharzia, tapeworm …

Free-ranging Chacma baboon species are known to harbour a wide range of zoonotic
parasites, and their frequent close interactions with humans pose a risk of transmission of …

Research on using plants as control agents for plant-parasitic nematodes has received
substantial attention due to the ability of plant-derived extracts and compounds to either …

Climate change is predicted to disproportionately impact sub‐Saharan Africa, with potential
devastating consequences on plant populations. Climate change may, however, impact …

History and culture were long seen as definitionally human. As other distinctive traits that
once defined our species as unique disappeared, at least we still had those two. But are we …