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 ...

You might have heard a fascinating bit of news in recent weeks: Researchers at the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project in Uganda published a paper documenting a deadly split among a large group of chimpanzees.

The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war." ...

Instead, the study found the opposite. In larger groups, chimpanzees appeared more willing to restrain themselves, perhaps because outright fighting would be costly and disruptive when many ...

A chimpanzee civil war has been ongoing for eight years, as the monkeys ambush each other (Image: Getty Images/Gallo Images ROOTS Collection) Scientists have documented a 'chimp civil war' within the ...

The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are ...