Posted on 04/10/2026 11:42:37 AM PDT by Angelino97
A scenic Ugandan jungle has become a bloody battlefield as two rival chimpanzee clans wage what could be the first recorded primate “civil war.” The ongoing simian conflict was detailed in a study published April 9 in the journal Science.
“Chimps from one group began attacking and killing those from the other group and that turned into an escalated period of lethal violence,” study author Aaron Sandel, an anthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin, told Livescience...
Comprised of over 200 members, the ape clan appeared fairly tight-knit aside from a few “clusters” and subgroups that existed within the troop.
However, between 1998 and 2014, a noticeable rift sprang up as disparate cliques formed, including a gang of three males.
By 2015, the formerly cohesive community had split into two clans that lived and reproduced separately with the aforementioned trio presiding over one of them.
It’s yet unclear what caused the schism. Researchers postulated that several adult males who acted as ambassadors between different factions died, leading to strained relations and a “change in the male dominance hierarchy.”...
By 2018, ties had fractured completely and, like with every group from the Mongols to the Mexican cartels, these splinter factions began vying for primacy.
They even occupied separate territories, similar to gangs presiding over turf...
“What followed was a series of lethal attacks by the western group on members of the central group,” the researchers wrote. “These raids resulted in multiple killings of adult males and, beginning in 2021, expanded to frequent infanticide, averaging several deaths per year.”
The dead young were often eaten, per the study...
Chimps typically beat each other to death and tear at flesh with their teeth.
Chimps who had been pals in the halcyon days turned on each other after the split.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I won’t say it.😎
Youths.
That’s what King Chuck would say.
A chimp out...with poo flinging?
But the proof! The doll!
In a few minutes there will be no doll. There can’t be. I’m sorry.
Beat me to it albeit I was thinking Newark.
BS. First time? PBS ran a show years ago of chimps murdering a female and her child. Then eating the infant. I saw the video. So...South Chicago is NOT that far of a stretch.
lol!
Sounds like another job for Marco Rubio.
More like Democrats and Republicans.
It’s not the first time. Jane Goodall wrote of a chimpanzee fight she was shocked by when she was in the Gombe Reserve studying the species, back in the 1970s. It’s in her first book.
Is it any different than Human in a civil war?
👍
This has been known and discussed for years.
I think Fossy was shocked by it.
“One of them was Lancelot Link .”
Lance Link .. . SECRET CHIMP???
( Key of B# )
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp!
He stands for justice. He has no fear.
He’s the agent to call when trouble is near.
( Drum SOLO ) FULL DISCLOSURE: There really isn’t a drum solo here but I put one in anyway .. .
” Hundreds of chimpanzees are killing each other”
Sounds like Russia-Ukraine.
Blue Planet covered a chip territory battle deep in the jungle. Losers were eaten.
...then this monolith appeared. One side the day after started using clubs and won!
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