The conflict is unfolding in Uganda's Kibale National Park, where a once-unified group has split into rival factions that have turned on each other.

The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since ...

A chimpanzee community in Uganda’s Kibale National Park that split into rival factions later attacked former allies in what ...

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." ...

Since 1995, scientists have tracked a huge group of chimpanzees living in the forests of Uganda. The sustained research, featured in the 2023 documentary “Chimp Empire,” has led to profound insights ...

An unusually large troop of chimpanzees displayed cooperation and social cohesion for decades, until something shifted and ...

"I've known many of them for their entire lives. And now I'm watching them kill each other," says one researcher. Reading time 4 minutes For two decades, a community of chimpanzees in Uganda thrived ...

Larger, more tolerant chimpanzee groups manage shared resources more effectively and exhibit less aggressive competition than smaller, more competitive groups. Tolerance functions as a group-level ...

Animal intelligence is not just about problem-solving—it directly shapes how species hunt, fight, and survive under constant ...