A 10-year chimp civil war continues with no end in sight. The new study draws from more than 30 years of observations of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in the western forests of Uganda. At its peak, nearly 200 individuals were in the Ngogo group, living cohesively in smaller subgroups that the researchers labeled as "clusters." Males and females from different clusters intermingled. They mated, hunted together and worked together to fight off other outside groups. Researchers took videos of males from different clusters holding hands. Then, in 2015, the researchers started seeing signs that something was off. "I can even pinpoint it to one particular day when there was a really big change," said Aaron Sandel, the lead author of the new study and a primatologist at the University of Texas at Austin. Over the next seven years, the Western group killed at least six other adults and 17 infants from the Central cluster. The fighting continues to this day. Why the Ngogo group split and why its members turned on each other is still unclear. In the paper, Sandel and his co-authors suggest several factors that may have contributed: the size of the group, competition for food and male-to-male competition. The natural deaths of five adult males and one adult female in 2014, before the intergroup divisions took root, may have weakened social networks. Caption from article by Nathan Rott, NPR.
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I would rather my tax money be spent on researching the chimp civil war, rather than that stupid arch none of us sane people want.
To be clear, the reason the arch keeps getting compared to the Lincoln Memorial is because its proposed location is RIGHT NEXT to it.
we should absolutely send vance personally to negotiate a chimp truce.
I applaud the restraint of the documentary makers naming it Chimp Empire and not Chimpire. I would not have had the same discipline.
This is some Egyptian pharaoh levels of narcissism You don't get to decide if you're worthy of a monument, that's for others to decide after you're dead
Spending money to help people: Nah Spending money on a war and arch that no one wants: Yay
“First slowly, then all at once” is usually how bankruptcy occurs.
Impressive back arch Dave!
Chimp God promised the western Chimps that central Chimp area 3,000 years ago
Do you know how many PhD research programs I’ve applied to that have said “Hey! You seem like a great fit! We have zero funding and don’t know when we’ll take more students again. Good luck.”
I hate how a quarter of my income goes to things I absolutely do not support
Hi sorry, the what.
I have never shown up so early and it’s about a chimp war where they had a falling out 😭
What’s the US state department position on the chimpanzee war??
War is like taking a dump. It starts slowly, then goes all at once.
Chimpanzee wars get so brutal and violent, and the interpersonal drama gets wild. I read that we actually hypothesize how early humans conducted war and conflict based on chimps.
"Science IS cool!"
Weren’t we told to beware of the man that makes monuments to himself?
People forget that humans closest till relatives are not only Chimps, but also Bonobo. Humans should be more like Bonobo.
Chimp Civil War? Man. This could interesting research on how war develops and how animals deal with it under similar social structures. If it comes to an end, we could be able to- "research may not continue next year due to budget cuts... For an arch" Never have I ever got so invested in something only to learn that the season has already been canceled...