An unusually large troop of chimpanzees displayed cooperation and social cohesion for decades, until something shifted and they started to turn on each other.
A 'chimp civil war' has erupted in Uganda with around 28 apes killed so far in the vicious conflict said to be so rare that it only happens 'once in every 500 years'
On the outskirts of the Ugandan town of Biale, tents are scattered along dirt roads that give way to open fields. The Kriandongo camp sits between a shattered past and a life tentatively being rebuilt. Here, the story does not end with fleeing 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 -- bodies never recovered. The study, published in Science and led by Aaron ...