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CHIMP WARS: How Two Societies of Chimpanzees Engaged in a Four-Year Civil War
Initially observed by famous researcher Jane Goodall in the 1970s. The true story of the Chimpanzee wars revealed a huge anthropological finding in our own human ability for societies to splinter and separate.
The story goes that a tribe of Chimpanzees engaged in war during a societal split; when a large party of the tribe mutinied and separated. This caused a four-year war over territory and resources between the great apes.
The GOMBE WAR reveals an inner truth about our own human propensity for genocide and bloodshed.
It is regrettable that since colonial independence Africa as a continent has been subject to many civil wars including the horrors of the Congo, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Angola and Libya. However; the Gombe War is the strangest African war that you will read; it is a key piece in the puzzle of human creation — it is a story that is 10 million years in the making.
The setting was the Gombe Stream National Park (Tanzania) where Jane Goodall based herself in observing chimpanzees. Primatologist Goodall was fortunate to observe them in their pure and natural habitat.
For many years it was believed that chimpanzees were a cute, caring and cuddly cousins to Humanity. Recent years have seen a shift in our…
