At least 24 dead as chimp civil war kicks off in Uganda

[1srelluc]

No, and it's not what you thought.

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps turning on itself

www.theguardian.com

In a new study published this week in the journal Science, Sandel and his colleagues document what may be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. While chimpanzees have long been known to wage campaigns of lethal aggression on outsiders, witnessing a once unified group turn on itself is something new – and very human.

Ever watch Chimp Nation?

They would form raiding parties, and sneak through the jungle in single file lines without making a peep to attack neighboring clans. It was like watching a Vietnam war movie!

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

www.scientificamerican.com

 

[Mashmont]

No, and it's not what you thought.

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps turning on itself

www.theguardian.com

In a new study published this week in the journal Science, Sandel and his colleagues document what may be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. While chimpanzees have long been known to wage campaigns of lethal aggression on outsiders, witnessing a once unified group turn on itself is something new – and very human.

Ever watch Chimp Nation?

They would form raiding parties, and sneak through the jungle in single file lines without making a peep to attack neighboring clans. It was like watching a Vietnam war movie!

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

www.scientificamerican.com

I thought animals were better than humans. That's what leftwingers always say. Guess not.

 

[1srelluc]

I thought animals were better than humans. That's what leftwingers always say. Guess not.

I bet a female started it.

In before it's Trump's fault.

 

[JGalt]

No, and it's not what you thought.

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps turning on itself

www.theguardian.com

In a new study published this week in the journal Science, Sandel and his colleagues document what may be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. While chimpanzees have long been known to wage campaigns of lethal aggression on outsiders, witnessing a once unified group turn on itself is something new – and very human.

Ever watch Chimp Nation?

They would form raiding parties, and sneak through the jungle in single file lines without making a peep to attack neighboring clans. It was like watching a Vietnam war movie!

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

www.scientificamerican.com

What the **** do they think they are? People?

Cut it you, you chimps. Don't make us come over there.

 

[1srelluc]

What the **** do they think they are? People?

Cut it you, you chimps. Don't make us come over there.

Sigh, another war Trump will have to fix.....After pushing in Iran's shit some more.

 

[MisterBeale]

The whales don’t spend their time coming up with better way to kill each other, just us shoe wearing monkeys do that

We aren't the only ones that kill each other. A once every 500 year civil war has erupted. I don't know how they figure it happens every 500 years though.

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
April 9, 2026

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

www.scientificamerican.com

". . . It’s an exceedingly rare event: scientists estimate that chimpanzee communities split, on average, every 500 years.. . . "

". . . The authors say that the group split because its social relationships broke down. Sandel suspects those ties were strained by an unusually large group size, competition over food and reproduction, alpha male changes and diseases that killed adults that were key bridges between clusters.

A similar fracture happened in Gombe National Park in Tanzania in the 1970s. There the late primatologist Jane Goodall observed that several chimpanzees had split off into a new group, and former groupmates later killed many of them. Similar events preceded that break: the clustering of social relationships, a rise in reproductive competition, a change in alpha males and the deaths of several community-bridging males. But because Gombe chimpanzees frequently ate bananas from humans, some primatologists doubted whether the group fission was a natural behavior.


“[Ngogo] is the first time that you could say definitively that the civil war is actually happening,” Sandel says. . . . "

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4944

 

[1srelluc]

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Apr 10, 2026

No, and it's not what you thought.

Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups

New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps turning on itself

www.theguardian.com

In a new study published this week in the journal Science, Sandel and his colleagues document what may be the first observed “civil war” in wild chimpanzees. While chimpanzees have long been known to wage campaigns of lethal aggression on outsiders, witnessing a once...

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[CrusaderFrank]

We aren't the only ones that kill each other. A once every 500 year civil war has erupted. I don't know how they figure it happens every 500 years though.

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
April 9, 2026

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

www.scientificamerican.com

". . . It’s an exceedingly rare event: scientists estimate that chimpanzee communities split, on average, every 500 years.. . . "

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". . . The authors say that the group split because its social relationships broke down. Sandel suspects those ties were strained by an unusually large group size, competition over food and reproduction, alpha male changes and diseases that killed adults that were key bridges between clusters.

A similar fracture happened in Gombe National Park in Tanzania in the 1970s. There the late primatologist Jane Goodall observed that several chimpanzees had split off into a new group, and former groupmates later killed many of them. Similar events preceded that break: the clustering of social relationships, a rise in reproductive competition, a change in alpha males and the deaths of several community-bridging males. But because Gombe chimpanzees frequently ate bananas from humans, some primatologists doubted whether the group fission was a natural behavior.


“[Ngogo] is the first time that you could say definitively that the civil war is actually happening,” Sandel says. . . . "
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4944

That's surprising. Even more surprising that someone thought fusing 2 chimp chromosomes to make a new species was a good idea

 

[Stryder50]

That's surprising. Even more surprising that someone thought fusing 2 chimp chromosomes to make a new species was a good idea

It allowed that "someone" to breed with the result; humans.
Which means we are half native to this planet, and half not native.

 

[Stryder50]

A "war" that likely won't last very long.
Be over before any human faction can intervene.

 

[Woodznutz]

So, they are a lot like us.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It allowed that "someone" to breed with the result; humans.
Which means we are half native to this planet, and half not native.

Well is was just the genetic scissors from offworld, at least physically.

My son worked at NIH briefly before he decided to become an MD and he explained CRISPR to me back then

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

We aren't the only ones that kill each other. A once every 500 year civil war has erupted. I don't know how they figure it happens every 500 years though.

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
April 9, 2026

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

www.scientificamerican.com

". . . It’s an exceedingly rare event: scientists estimate that chimpanzee communities split, on average, every 500 years.. . . "

View attachment 1242093

". . . The authors say that the group split because its social relationships broke down. Sandel suspects those ties were strained by an unusually large group size, competition over food and reproduction, alpha male changes and diseases that killed adults that were key bridges between clusters.

A similar fracture happened in Gombe National Park in Tanzania in the 1970s. There the late primatologist Jane Goodall observed that several chimpanzees had split off into a new group, and former groupmates later killed many of them. Similar events preceded that break: the clustering of social relationships, a rise in reproductive competition, a change in alpha males and the deaths of several community-bridging males. But because Gombe chimpanzees frequently ate bananas from humans, some primatologists doubted whether the group fission was a natural behavior.


“[Ngogo] is the first time that you could say definitively that the civil war is actually happening,” Sandel says. . . . "
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4944

Thought this was going to be about Shitcago. My bad...

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[Carl in Michigan]

I thought animals were better than humans. That's what leftwingers always say. Guess not.

Chimps are the most violent of the primates. There are differences. Stereotypes exist for a reason