Jaap de Roode: how butterfiles self-medicate

This conferance is presented by Jaap de Roode a biologist. First of all Jaap explain us that human it's not the only animal that has de ability to self-medicate, many animals can do it for example the elephant that eat some plants to improve their digestive system.

But the important of the conferance it's that Jaap discovered that also the insects have the ability to self-medicate, he discovered doing some exeperiments, for example whatching if the butterfiles preefer to put their eggs in a medicinal plant or an a posionous plant.

In concluison Jaap think that the future of the medicine it's on the behavior of the butterfiles.