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The Gombe Chimpanzee War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
by i_feel_great 11y ago
The Gombe Chimpanzee War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
- nefitty 11y agoAmazing. Thanks for sharing this. Next time someone appeals to nature, I'll drop this little tidbit to remind them that life out there isn't all roses and butterflies.
- rorykoehler 11y agoUnlike their gentle Bonobo cousins, Chimps are notoriously aggressive. Humans are said to be 50% Chimp and 50% Bonobo in behaviour.
- i_feel_great 11y agoThis article has been edited since I first looked at it around 2013. At that time, there were other explicit descriptions of the violence - chimps killing and eating infants from the other group, and beatings and rape of females. This New Scientist article has more details: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229682.600-only-known-chimp-war-reveals-how-societies-splinter https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229682.600-only-kno...
- gus_massa 11y agoThe newscientific's article has more information. But I think the documented case of eating chimps children is from another place. And this is the revision that did that remove the rape part: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gombe_Chimpanzee_War&type=revision&diff=649596805&oldid=633464265 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gombe_Chimpanzee_... The comment is: > The war: Second paragraph. Chimps were not raped. No where does this reference occur in Goodall's articles or any other Gombe researcher. The source seems to be the Morris reference. I don't know where they got that.