The Collapse that No One Expected: the Largest Known Community of Wild Chimpanzees Breaks After Decades of Unity

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The largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world has been permanently divided into two separate groups. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions reported on this strange event in Science magazine after 30 years of observations from Ngogo's chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park. During the first 20 years of research, the community remained united; individuals moved between subgroups, known as "c…