Smithsonian Magazine

These Wild Chimps Have Been Fighting in a ‘Civil War’ for Nearly a Decade. It’s the Bloodiest Split Ever Seen Among Their Kind

The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since ...

Infants torn from mothers, testicles ripped off: Study describes vicious chimpanzee infighting

Chimpanzees that had once formed a cohesive community in Uganda split into factions and turned violent, according to a new ...

Why these chimps have been at war for 8 years

The long-running conflict in a formerly unified community, the second ever observed, adds to Jane Goodall’s studies about a ...

Hundreds of chimpanzees are killing each other in a ‘civil war’ — scientists captured the ‘lethal violence’ for the first time

They’re going apes–t. A scenic Ugandan jungle has become a bloody battlefield as two rival chimpanzee clans wage what could ...

These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why.

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

How a Chimpanzee Civil War Tore Through a Once-Stable Uganda Group

One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw ...

Violent split in chimpanzee group offers clues on roots of human conflict: Research

Researchers have documented a permanent split between the largest-known group of wild chimpanzees, which erupted into a ...

Inside the Deadly Civil War That Tore Apart a Group of Chimpanzees in Uganda

A chimp group’s success may have led to its violent downfall, a new study suggests.
Scientific American

Two hundred chimpanzees are embroiled in a ‘civil war’

The world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees split into two factions that are now engaged in deadly combat ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda are locked in a deadly 'civil war' after their group split apart — and scientists don't know why

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, ...
Tyla

There’s a ‘civil war’ happening between two groups of chimpanzees

Hundreds of chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park have divided into two groups that are embroiled in a years-long ...

What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about how societies fall apart

Like with humans, it is not uncommon in the natural world for a group of animals to split apart and form their own independent groups. But what a new study in the journal Science depicts in the ...