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

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

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

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

The researchers pointed out that the chimps tested in the study are used to contact with humans and familiar with objects not found in the natural world, so future experiments should be carried out ...

A major chimpanzee group split into rivals and turned violent, showing how social divisions alone can drive deadly conflict ...

One day in June 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was watching chimpanzees in Uganda’s Kibale National Park when he saw something that did not make sense. A small party of chimps from the Ngogo ...

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

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

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

They look playful, affectionate, even human—but the chimpanzees flooding social media are often on a path that leads not to ...

Chimps’ love for crystals could help explain our ancestors’ fascination with the shiny stones. The forerunners of modern humans collected crystals for which they had no apparent use, say scientists.