Chimpanzees in Uganda are locked in a deadly 'civil war' after their group split apart — and scientists don't know why

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, ...

Infants torn from mothers, testicles ripped off: Study describes vicious chimpanzee infighting

Chimpanzees that had once formed a cohesive community in Uganda split into factions and turned violent, according to a new ...

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

The lethal conflict is the first clear example of a ferocious fission in a wild chimpanzee community – which fractured into ...

These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why.

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

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 ...
Scientific American

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 Are Murdering Their Former Friends, and Researchers Can’t Wrap Their Heads Around It

"I've known many of them for their entire lives. And now I'm watching them kill each other," says one researcher.
Geographical

A cry from the forest: chimps in Uganda

But in the villages around Muhorro, humans and chimpanzees are embroiled in a battle for survival that has seen dozens of children killed and injured, and the forests that the chimpanzees live in ...