Chimpanzees that had once formed a cohesive community in Uganda split into factions and turned violent, according to a new ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest living relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA, highlighting the remarkable genetic closeness between species. Yet, these primates are ...

Researchers who observed a murderous conflict unfolding in a once-unified group of wild chimpanzees say there are parallels ...

Like with humans, it is not uncommon in the natural world for a group of animals to split apart and form their own independent groups. But what a new study in the journal Science depicts in the ...

One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw ...

Researchers have documented a permanent split between the largest-known group of wild chimpanzees, which erupted into a ...

The world's largest known group of wild chimpanzees has split and been locked in a vicious "civil war" for the last eight ...

A full-scale chimpanzee civil war is currently happening in the thick canopies of Uganda's Kibale National Park. This is like ...