![]() ![]() On average, eight males gang up on the victim. Similar attacks occur in chimp populations elsewhere a 2014 study found that chimps are about 30 times as likely to kill a chimp from a neighboring group as to kill one of their own. Over the course of a decade, the male chimps in one group systematically killed every neighboring male, kidnapped the surviving females, and expanded their territory. The protagonists in this tale of blood and conquest, first told by the primatologist John Mitani, are not people they are chimpanzees in a national park in Uganda. Eventually, nearly 20 such killings took place, until there was no one left, and the Others took over the whole valley. They left him there to bleed to death and later returned to mutilate his body. At first, there were two of them, and he tried to fight, but another four crept up behind him and he was surrounded. This was where he risked running into the Others, the ones from the ridge above the valley. The second, bigger mistake was wandering too far up the valley into a dangerous wooded area. ![]() His first mistake was looking for food alone perhaps things would have turned out differently if he’d been with someone else. ![]()
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