Posted on 07/22/2021 12:50:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
Scientists observed chimpanzees attacking and killing gorillas in the wild
Two deadly incidents happened in 2019 that left two infant gorillas dead
The first incident lasted for 52 minutes and the second lasted for 72 minutes
The second incident also ended with a female chimp eating the dead gorilla
Experts say the behavior may be due to a competition of food
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Chimpanzees living at Africa's Loango National Park in Gabon are attacking and killing gorillas that also call the region home in what researchers are saying is a first in the scientific community.
A team of scientists from Osnabrück University and the Max Planck Institute suggest two lethal attacks are a result of the animals competing for food that is diminishing because of climate change, researchers note in a press release.
Prior to the deadly incidents, researchers observed nine occasions during 2014 through 2018 where chimpanzees and gorillas interacted peacefully and even co-fed in fruiting trees.
The harmony came to a screeching halt in 2019, when, on two occasions, chimps formed coalitions and attacked a group of gorillas for a combined 124 minutes that ended with two dead infant gorillas.
The second encounter ended with a dead, mutilated infant that was almost entirely consumed by one adult chimpanzee female.
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Tobias Deschner, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said in a statement: 'It could be that sharing of food resources by chimpanzees, gorillas and forest elephants in the Loango National Park results in increased competition and sometimes even in lethal interactions between the two great ape species.
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Yep.
they will kill and eat their own...
Just because you never saw it happen before doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before..
A few years back they caught a cow eating a baby chick on film...
Was that global warming too?
nonsense.
It’s only a matter of time until the chimps start attacking people.
If I was a scientist I’d be packing my bags before the chimps realize I might be a food source.
My garage door opener stopped working yesterday... and you want to know why? Global warming
When the chimps gang up and kill a fully grown silverback get back with me. Until then it’s much ado about nothing.
Stacy Abrams better hide.
Nah. Gotta be racism. Or “WS”.
A primate crisis is a terrible thing waste!
huh? I never even mentioned that i didn’t believe that they kill their own for food?
also Trump, white supremacy, the rich, and republicans
It’s just the culture over there. Move along.
Bush probably DID have something to do with it. RINOs can’t be trusted.
lol yep- Chimps are nothing to take lightly- Some woman had a ‘pet chimp’ and another woman went to visit and the chimp attacked her and ripped her face off- Nasty Vicious little critters-
Maybe they just wanted that quarterly hamburger. 😐
Should have read “they will kill their own kind”...
Not sure how kind became food...
Chips will canibalize....
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