This chimpanzee shares nearly 98% of its DNA with humans, but behind its intelligence is a brutally powerful primate capable of coordinated attacks, violent dominance fights, strategic hunting, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A chimpanzee community called Ngogo was unified until it fragmented and went to war with itself. In this image taken before the ...

It’s easy to blame war on religion, ethnicity or politics. But chimpanzees in Uganda just experienced a civil war without any of those things - and the findings may reshape how we think about peace. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Congolese Army soldier holds a baby chimpanzee while manning a checkpoint in the entrance to the provincial capital of Goma, ...

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 ...

A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate... What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about ...

Ponso, the only surviving chimpanzee of a colony of 20 apes, is pictured on Chimpanzee Island near the town of Grand Lahou, Ivory Coast, on August 18, 2017. AFP Contributor AFP via Getty Images Deep ...

In the mid-1970s, primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that changed her opinion of chimpanzees forever: A four-year conflict amongst the... Why a chimp 'civil war' shows how societies ...

(CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing a group of apes on June 24, 2015, in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, where the ...

"Alpha" is a position of enormous strength and importance for chimpanzees. Before the war and the split of the Ngogo chimpanzees into two groups, Jackson was alpha of everyone, more than 200 ...

On the last full day of his life, Basie, a large gregarious male chimpanzee, woke up at dawn in a tree nest he'd fashioned from branches and leaves, surrounded by other chimps also dozing in nests, as ...

In the mid-1970s, more than a decade into her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, the late and legendary primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed something that horrified her. The ...