Of the 152 additional chimpanzees that the chimpanzees murdered throughout the research, 58 were seen up close by the participating scientists.
The only animals known to organize assaults are chimpanzees and humans. “Research on the origins of human warfare has been particularly influenced by studies of chimpanzee violence,”
Wilson said. According to others, human combat is a relatively new cultural innovation that sprang from other recent developments, such the beginning of agriculture.
In Africa’s Loango National Park in Gabon, chimpanzees have been seen assaulting, murdering, and then consuming gorillas, further demonstrating the primate supremacy.
Two young gorillas were killed when chimpanzees banded together and assaulted a troop of gorillas for a total of 124 minutes on two separate occasions.
