https://youtu.be/fxWY7rosS-0?si=aA8Nrpp4wlPEwgKu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

The Gombe Chimpanzee War, also known as the Four-Year War, was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978. The two groups were once unified in the Kasakela community.

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Jane Goodall is known for her research on chimpanzees. The outbreak of the war shocked her, as she had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, “rather ‘nicer’”. Coupled with her 1975 observation of cannibalistic infanticide by a high-ranking female in the community, the Gombe war revealed the “dark side” of chimpanzee behavior. In her 1990 memoir Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, she wrote:

For several years I struggled to come to terms with this new knowledge. Often when I woke in the night, horrific pictures sprang unbidden to my mind—Satan , cupping his hand below Sniff’s chin to drink the blood that welled from a great wound on his face; old Rodolf, usually so benign, standing upright to hurl a four-pound rock at Godi’s prostrate body; Jomeo tearing a strip of skin from Dé’s thigh; Figan, charging and hitting, again and again, the stricken, quivering body of Goliath, one of his childhood heroes.

dv said:

Jane Goodall is known for her research on chimpanzees. The outbreak of the war shocked her, as she had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, “rather ‘nicer’”.

LOL the naïvety

dv said:

Jane Goodall is known for her research on chimpanzees. The outbreak of the war shocked her, as she had previously considered chimpanzees to be, although similar to human beings, “rather ‘nicer’”.

LOL the naïvety

>>left only three Kahama males: Charlie, Sniff, and Willy Wally, who was crippled from polio

Polio, ooh.

Peak Warming Man said:

>>left only three Kahama males: Charlie, Sniff, and Willy Wally, who was crippled from polio

Polio, ooh.

Polio occurs naturally only in humans. It is highly infectious,
Wiki.

Peak Warming Man said:

Peak Warming Man said:

>>left only three Kahama males: Charlie, Sniff, and Willy Wally, who was crippled from polio

Polio, ooh.

Polio occurs naturally only in humans. It is highly infectious,
Wiki.

and mild, less than 1% infected die, let it rip

Peak Warming Man said:

>>left only three Kahama males: Charlie, Sniff, and Willy Wally, who was crippled from polio

Polio, ooh.

I think Willy Wally should be mocapped by Andy Serkis.

Further to this, here is a report of coordinated attacks by chimps on gorillas, likely a form of interspecies conflict driven by competition for food.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93829-x

Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild

Intraspecies violence, including lethal interactions, is a relatively common phenomenon in mammals. Contrarily, interspecies violence has mainly been investigated in the context of predation and received most research attention in carnivores. Here, we provide the first information of two lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on another hominid species, western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), that occur sympatrically in the Loango National Park in Gabon. In both events, the chimpanzees significantly outnumbered the gorillas and victims were infant gorillas. We discuss these observations in light of the two most widely accepted theoretical explanations for interspecific lethal violence, predation and competition, and combinations of the two-intraguild predation and interspecific killing. Given these events meet conditions proposed to trigger coalitional killing of neighbours in chimpanzees, we also discuss them in light of chimpanzees’ intraspecific interactions and territorial nature. Our findings may spur further research into the complexity of interspecies interactions. In addition, they may aid in combining field data from extant models with the Pliocene hominid fossil record to better understand behavioural adaptations and interspecific killing in the hominin lineage.