{"id":8173,"date":"2026-04-09T18:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8173"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:20:23","slug":"wild-chimpanzees-recorded-waging-civil-war-with-coordinated-attacks-between-two-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8173","title":{"rendered":"Wild chimpanzees recorded waging \u2018civil war\u2019 with coordinated attacks between two groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself<\/p>\n<p>On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda\u2019s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees\u2019 wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in front of him began to display nervous behaviour. They grimaced and touched each other for reassurance, acting more like they were about to meet strangers than close companions.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, Sandel said, that moment was the first sign of what would become a years-long bloody conflict between a once close-knit group of chimps.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/apr\/09\/civil-war-chimpanzee-group-closer-to-human-condition-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda\u2019s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,492,327,97,156,85,89,389,21,142,133,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-animal-behaviour","category-animals","category-biology","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-global-development","category-primatology","category-science","category-uganda","category-wildlife","category-world-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}