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 — bodies never recovered. The study, published in Science and led by Aaron Sandel of the University of Texas at Austin, documents the first confirmed chimpanzee "civil war": a large community fracturing into two hostile groups that now patrol hard territorial borders. — Read the rest The post A group of 200 chimps had a civil war appeared first on Boing Boing.