Largest Known Wild Chimpanzee Community Breaks Apart After Decades of Unity
SciTech Daily | June 2, 2026 | University of Texas at Austin
Wild chimpanzees in Uganda split into two separate communities and later engaged in deadly attacks against each other.
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For the first 20 years of research, the chimpanzee community remained united. Individuals regularly moved among flexible subgroups, known as “clusters,” while maintaining social bonds across the larger group. This fission-fusion social structure is common in chimpanzees, with members temporarily separating and later rejoining.
That pattern began to change in 2015, when researchers noticed growing division between the Western and Central clusters, which increasingly avoided one another.
Scientists will blame it on Trump. Rational people will blame it on scientists who blame it on Trump.
Eh, I think rational people will blame this particular rift on the chimpanzees themselves.
Causes of the Big Chimpanzee Rift…
Global Warming
Climate Change
Banana Shortage
Politics
Religion
Jealousy
Fornication
Adultery
…chimpanzee scientists trying to replicate the Oldivai Gorge fiasco…
…one side said “banana”, the other side said “Banana? Split!”…
… more fallout from ‘nana technology.
The tool using chimpanzees think the ants they catch are less filling.
The non-tool using chimpanzees however…
Females.
Cute, intelligence enhancing hats, although that’s not supposed to happen until the 3000’s.
“Acceptance” and “Inclusivity” for the various Frog/Football lovers.
“… growing division between the Western and Central clusters”
Could it have had something to do with picante sauce?
I highly doubt it…but over gay marriage, yes.
NoKingKongs vs. AntiFayWrays.
Obviously too much monkey business
One group converted to Islam.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
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We thought it was us. But,it was the apes that blew it all up all along…
Several millenia of devolution resulted in them becoming soccer hooligans just as this year’s World Cup began.