The Ngogo chimpanzees in Uganda have divided themselves into two main factions, and dozens of deaths have been recorded since the split in 2018. A new study details the unprecedented violence, which c ...

The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.

The conflict is unfolding in Uganda's Kibale National Park, where a once-unified group has split into rival factions that have turned on each other.

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties can fracture a group, igniting deadly conflict between former friends.

You might have heard a fascinating bit of news in recent weeks: Researchers at the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project in Uganda ...

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 equivalent of a "civil war." ...

"I've known many of them for their entire lives. And now I'm watching them kill each other," says one researcher. Reading time 4 minutes For two decades, a community of chimpanzees in Uganda thrived ...

The Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda's Kibale National Park is the largest known community of wild chimpanzees in the world. Over the last decade, it has split into two distinct groups that are ...