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These chimps started fighting - and it became a full civil war

The natural world is brutally competitive, and when animals fight over food, territory, or dominance, the results can sometimes escalate far beyond simple skirmishes. Across the planet, scientists and ...
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These wild chimps have been fighting in a 'civil war' for nearly a decade. It's the bloodiest split ever seen among their kind

Since 1995, scientists have kept a watchful eye on the Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. For around two decades, the wild apes coalesced as a unified group that mated and hunted ...
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Why a chimp 'civil war' shows how societies collapse

In the mid-1970s, primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that changed her opinion of chimpanzees forever: A four-year conflict amongst the... Why a chimp 'civil war' shows how societies ...
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Chimp ‘civil war’ follows rare community split in a Ugandan national park

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A 30-year study documents a rare split within a chimpanzee community in Uganda’s Kibale National Park — one that sparked a deadly war. Two rival ...
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The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence

When Aristotle claimed that humans differ from other animals because they have the ability to be rational, he understood rational to mean that we could form our views and beliefs based on evidence, ...
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Forgotten chapter in NASA history: The fight to save the space chimps

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – After more recent exposés on the experience of chimpanzees in the southwest, it's worth looking back at the interview series from George Knapp that blew the case of the space chimps ...