A once large and peaceful group of chimpanzees in the western forests of Uganda has now split into two, causing a rare “civil war” among the primates.

On the last full day of his life, Basie, a large gregarious male chimpanzee, woke up at dawn in a tree nest he’d fashioned from branches and leaves, surrounded by other chimps also dozing in nests, as ...

This shows adult male chimpanzees of one group attacking a male chimpanzee of another group in 2019 The world's largest known group of wild chimpanzees has split and been locked in a vicious "civil ...

In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her. The ...

The Gombe Stream National Park is a beautiful park in Tanzania, filled with nature, steep valleys, and multiple forest vegetation types. The terrain is only accessible by boat and because of its ...

The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are ...

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 ...