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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A group of 200 chimps had a civil war
Between 2018 and 2024, one faction of chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park killed 7 adult males and 17 infants from a rival group. Fourteen more adult males vanished — bodies never recovered. The study, published in Science and led by Aaron Sandel of the University of Texas at Austin, documents the first confirmed chimpanzee "civil war": a large community fracturing into two hostile groups that now patrol hard territorial borders. — Read…
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 …
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