The article describes the discovery that creatures lacking advanced brains tend to self-medicate. The previous belief that only animals with advanced brains such as chimpanzees were capable of such behavior is mentioned, noting that researchers at Wesleyan University discovered that woolly bear caterpillars (Grammia incorrupta) self-medicated when infested with parasitic fly maggots.
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