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Scientists stunned as chimpanzees turn on friends in killing spree

For two decades, researchers observed members of the Ngogo chimpanzee group of Kibale National Park in Uganda spend their days eating fruits and leaves, resting, traveling and groo...

In one experiment, chimpanzees saw a person struggling to reach something and helped, even without a…

In one experiment, chimpanzees saw a person struggling to reach something and helped, even without a...

A group of 200 chimps had a civil war

Between 2018 and 2024, one faction of chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park killed 7 adult males and 17 infants from a rival group. Fourteen more adult males vanished — bodi...

In zoos, ‘peaceful’ bonobos are just as aggressive as chimps, study suggests

A new study of our two closest living relatives finds that, at least in zoos, bonobos may not be more peaceful than chimpanzees. Bonobos (Pan paniscus) are only found south of the...

A chimpanzee’s rhythmic drumming with floorboards hints at origins of instruments

Drumming and singing at the same time is impressive, whether you’re Karen Carpenter, Ringo Starr or a chimpanzee. Japanese researchers report that Ayumu, a 26-year-old male chimpan...

A 2025 study found that wild chimpanzees likely get about 14 grams of alcohol a day from fermented…

A 2025 study found that wild chimpanzees likely get about 14 grams of alcohol a day from fermented...

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 locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.

Chimp ‘civil war’ follows rare community split in a Ugandan national park

A chimpanzee community in Uganda’s Kibale National Park that split into rival factions later attacked former allies in what researchers are describing as a rare chimpanzee “civil w...

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, in Uganda, turning on itselfOn a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing...

Uganda: Inside the Chimpanzee 'Civil War' That Has Locked a Ugandan Forest in Conflict

[RFI] Chimpanzees in western Uganda have turned on each other in an unusual and deadly conflict, after one community split into rival groups that began carrying out repeated attack...

Chimpanzee group's violent rupture hints at evolutionary roots of war

Researchers who observed a murderous conflict unfolding in a once-unified group of wild chimpanzees say there are parallels with civil wars in human societies

Chimpanzee Civil War Rewrites What We Know About Violence

Ugandan chimps split into two factions, then killed rivals

Rare event suggests relational dynamics may play a role in collective violence, along with cultural markers.

Hay una rara “guerra civil” de chimpancés. Podría enseñarnos sobre el conflicto humano

Por Taylor Nicioli Aaron Sandel puede precisar cuándo empezó todo. El codirector del Proyecto de Chimpancés de Ngogo había estado observando a un grupo de simios el 24 de junio de...

Hay una rara “guerra civil” de chimpancés. Podría enseñarnos sobre el conflicto humano

Por Taylor Nicioli Aaron Sandel puede precisar cuándo empezó todo. El codirector del Proyecto de Chimpancés de Ngogo había estado observando a un grupo de simios el 24 de junio de...

Hay una rara “guerra civil” de chimpancés. Podría enseñarnos sobre el conflicto humano

Por Taylor Nicioli Aaron Sandel puede precisar cuándo empezó todo. El codirector del Proyecto de Chimpancés de Ngogo había estado observando a un grupo de simios el 24 de junio de...

Scientists Announce The First Clear Evidence of a Chimpanzee 'Civil War'

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Great apes mirror facial expressions with surprising precision, study shows

New research from the University of Portsmouth has found that great apes exhibit exactness in mimicking one another's facial expressions in social contexts. The study, published in...

Chimpanzees in Uganda are in a ‘civil war,’ and researchers are unsure how it will end

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in...

Chimpanzees in Uganda are in a ‘civil war,’ and researchers are unsure how it will end

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in...

Defying conflict to track the world’s rarest chimpanzees

GASHAKA GUMTI NATIONAL PARK, Nigeria — Here in Nigeria’s largest protected wilderness area lies one of the last strongholds of the Nigeria–Cameroon chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes elli...

Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference

Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates often have strong biases, and chimpanzees, gorillas, a...

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

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."