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Fighting Chimpanzee Wields Stick Like a Weapon

It’s not unusual for chimpanzees to fight. Chimpanzee society is naturally aggressive and even violent. However, visitors at the Los Angeles Zoo probably didn’t expect this chimpanzee brawl to look ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Wild Chimps Have Been Fighting in a ‘Civil War’ for Nearly a Decade. It’s the Bloodiest Split Ever Seen Among Their Kind

The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since the split in 2018. A new study details the unprecedented violence, which c ...

Is war central to human nature? Chimps can’t tell us everything

Outbreaks of violence between chimpanzees have sparked fierce debate online about the origins of war in humans ...
CNN on MSN

A rare chimpanzee ‘civil war’ is happening. It could teach us about human conflict

A once large and peaceful group of chimpanzees in the western forests of Uganda has now split into two, causing a rare “civil war” among the primates.
Mongabay

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 Congo River in the ...
Phys.org

Bonobos and chimps: What our closest relatives tell us about humans

The aggressive chimp in us However, one disturbing characteristic stands out. Chimpanzees "go ape" and attack each other in coordinated assaults. Dutch primate expert Frans de Waal's 1982 book ...
news.iastate.edu

Chimps’ behavior following death disturbing to ISU anthropologist

AMES, Iowa – Shocking is one word Jill Pruetz uses to describe the behavior she witnessed after a chimp was killed at her research site in Fongoli, Senegal. The fact that chimps would kill a member of ...