Chimpanzees in Uganda are locked in a deadly ‘civil war’ after their group split apart — and scientists don’t know why
https://www.livescience.com/animals/primates/chimpanzees-in-uganda-are-locked-in-a-deadly-civil-war-after-their-group-split-apart-and-scientists-dont-know-why
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It sounds unconditionally familiar, right?
I mean, what not was left to happen?
Maybe there can be a mediator chimpanzee to broker a peace. Someone needs to tell them together, apes strong.
Release the Chimpstein files.
They either believe in a different god or want more money than the other.
Why dont scientists realize this? Are they stupid?
Probably about oil
they must be evolving into humans
Did not Jane Goodall observe the same thing.
A tribe splitting in half and then going on a 4 year war?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
if youre interested in learning about chimp society and conflicts they have with other groups i highly recommend watching ‘Rise of the Warrior Apes’ and ‘ Chimp Empire’. both are fascinating if youre interested at all.
Did a tall black monolith recently appear in that area? About 15 feet high? Are the chimps using bones as weapons?
We got real Planet of the Apes before GTA VI.
Why is this story getting absolutely spammed across every sub thats even tangentially related atm? Its always been a popular repost but this is getting ridiculous.
Scientists are scratching their heads; was it tariffs, territory, oil and a very bad WhatsApp group chat?
Maybe they elected a dementia addled con-orangutan?
Bonobo monkeys are a relative of Chimpanzees and when they meet another group of monkeys they have a love in. Chimpanzees on the other hand have take no prisoners war to the death. I watched a documentary where a group of monkeys split off and the original group killed all of them.
Do scientists know why humans are locked in deadly perpetual wars? Asking for a chimp friend..
Green Drazi and purple Drazi.
We’re not so different after all.
“He pointed to bonobos (Pan paniscus) — our other closest relatives — which form stable and distinct groups. They are also aggressive, but unlike chimpanzees, they don’t engage in such lethal group conflicts but form tolerant, cooperative associations, so such conflicts aren’t evolutionarily determined.”
If one species shows a behavior and the other doesn’t that point instead to the idea that it’s genetically ingrained in chimpanzees and not in Bonobos? So an evolutionary determined characteristic? bonobos and chimpanzees split 2 million years ago, it’s perfectly plausible that the common ancestor had a propensity to group conflict (se humans do as well) and that Bonobos had that propensity decrease or even disappear after 2 million years of evolution, or that chimpanzees saw it increase as well, which would translate to closely related species showing distinct behaviors. Maybe it isn’t the case, but I struggle to see how two distinct species having distinct behaviors proves the behavior isn’t evolutionarily induced.
Highly recommend Chimp Empire documentary on Netflix, covers some similar dynamics. Kinda sad too
I still remember my undergrad philosophy course book claiming humans are the only ones that war among ourselves lol. Hippie books lol
Humanity witnessing the species they share 99.99% of their genes and gene expression with waging civil war.
Aliens must see us the same way.
They don’t have enough territory.
One side started watching Faux News?
Scientist still don’t why men do it neither. We’re not that far removed.
This could be a headline in an alien race news article about earth.
We’ve done it, we infected the Chimpanzees!
We’ve made them horrible human beings. throw them weapons and tell me evolution isn’t true.
Leave em to it
It’s probably one ape that is super aggressive and all the other apes just follow
Ngl this also applies to human conflicts
Imagine an extraterrestrial being who can’t speak any human language to get some context trying to explain why tf the ukraine war is still going on. I’m not surprised other species also have dumb reasons of their own that we can’t really comprehend
This reminds me of the discussion on war from Blood Meridian:
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
“The Humans are engaged in a millennia long civil war and researchers don’t know why” – Some Alien probably
And Humans: “we are the Grandchildren of apes”
One chimp found a tube of bronzer that someone dropped in the forest and rubbed it on its face, then started shouting “Make Bananas Great Again!” and claiming he was the biggliest chimp ever – so big he might actually be a gorilla. Some of the other chimps started following MABA Chimp despite the fact that bananas were already great, there was no evidence to back up any of his wild claims, an he’s a known predator of baby chimps.
So now they’re at war because the MABA chimps just spend all their time throwing shit all over everything and everyone else is fed up because now there’s nothing to eat.
If the leader of one of the groups has a blonde comb-over, I think I know why
Has one of them started wearing a red cap while screaming MUGA?!
PS: I’ll see myself out now…
Lemme guess, factions led by Caesar and Koba?