US EditionStudy: Ongoing Conflict Spurs Rare Community Split in Chimps
- The largest known group of wild chimpanzees has been in a brutal conflict for eight years, according to researchers.
- Since 2018, scientists recorded 24 killings, including 17 infants from the Central chimpanzees' group.
- Members of the Western group began attacking the Central chimpanzees after the split in 2018.
- Lead author Aaron Sandel noted that these chimps, once close, are now trying to kill each other.
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Researchers have documented for the first time how a wild chimpanzee group split into hostile camps - an indication of how important social relations are for a peaceful coexistence. By Nina Kunze.
Killing raids, infanticides, border patrols... For fifteen years, the largest community of primates observed by intertwined scientists.
The case of lethal conflict chimpanzees documented in Kibale National Park (Uganda) has surprised the scientific community by revealing how the largest known wild community was divided into two opposing groups. For more than three decades, researchers observed a coexistence based on cooperation and the fission-fusion model, but from 2015 onwards a progressive break began that ended in extreme violence. The study, published in Science, shows how …
Even the Chimps Are Going to War
A study 30 years in the making, published last week in Science, announced an explosive finding: The largest known group of wild chimpanzees, located in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, is locked in a bloody civil war. The study’s authors said this might be the first “rare fission of a wild chimpanzee group and subsequent lethal aggression against former group members” in 500 years. At least 24 chimpanzees have been killed out of a total of about 2…
Wild chimpanzees fight in deadly 'civil war' amid massive group split — and scientists aren't sure why
In a shocking twist of nature, scientists have documented a rare phenomenon in the wild: a violent split within a single group of chimpanzees. The conflict is unfolding in Uganda's Kibale National Park, where a once-unified group has broken into rival factions that have turned on each other. According to a new study, the Ngogo chimpanzee community, one of the largest ever observed with around 200 individuals, began to divide around 2015. Initial…
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