Wild Animals A wild animal is a product of natural selection, in which those that have best adapted to their environment have survived to breed. They demonstrate successful strategies for survival that have been honed by natural selection. It is a general observation that wild animals free in their undisturbed habitat not exposed to extremes…

The term “zoopharmacognosy” was proposed by Eloy Rodriguez and Richard Wrangam in 1987, to describe the process by which wild animals select and use specific plants with medicinal properties for the treatment and prevention of disease. This was following several anecdotal evidences from many naturalists’ observation that animals in the wild resort to plant self-medication…