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

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

Deep in the rainforests of Uganda, scientists have watched the largest known group of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) turn ...

Rare chimpanzee “civil war” reveals how social bonds collapse into violence, offering new insight into human conflict origins.

Scientists watched a chimp society collapse-and the cause may rewrite everything we know about human conflict.

Field biologists in Uganda have been following and tracking the behaviors of Ngogo chimpanzees for over a decade. What they ...

Since 1995, scientists have kept a watchful eye on the Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. For around two ...

But the case was considered an anomaly, although there is genetic evidence suggesting this kind of split is a rare event ...

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 ...

Then one faction began killing their former group mates on the other side, researchers write today in the journal Science.

Researchers at the University of St Andrews used the largest-ever database of wild chimpanzee gestures in their work. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going ...