CHIMP WARS: How Two Societies of Chimpanzees Engaged in a Four-Year Civil War
5 min readAug 7, 2020
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…