It’s official, folks: the ape-pocalypse has begun. But don’t worry, there’s no ultra-intelligent chimps riding horses while wielding machine guns. The good news? Humans aren’t the target of the current simian brutality. The bad news? We’re the likely, sad cause.
Back in February 2019, a posse of 18 chimpanzees jumped a group of five gorillas — one male silverback, three females, and one baby — while rolling through Loango National Park in Gabon along the western coast of Central Africa, as Science Alert says.
Researchers who were tracking the animals told Live Science that the gorillas fought back, to the point where the silverback was “really throwing some of the chimps in the air, so he was really trying to protect himself and his group,” said Simone Pika, a cognitive biologist at Osnabrück University.
In the end, three chimps were injured, but they also captured the baby gorilla and beat it to death. The attack lasted a full 52 minutes.
Things get even more grim from here. Later on, in December 2019, a larger group of 27 chimpanzees, some of whom were involved in the first attack, assaulted a group of seven gorillas (one male silverback, three adult females, one young adult, and two babies). This time, the chimps didn’t merely capture a baby gorilla; they ate it. This attack lasted 79 minutes.
DRIVEN TO BRUTALITY BY A LACK OF FOOD
In both cases, the chimpanzees initiated the assaults. As Live Science says, researchers thought things would go the way they usually go when the species come across each other in the forest: Be peaceful, say hi, and even play around a bit. Instead, they heard the silverback start beating its chest, and the whole thing escalated into full-on assault and killing.
The chimps, it turns out, were part of a group of 45 being observed in a study in the region, per CNN. Otherwise, we’d have had no way to know this kind of thing was happening. The February 2019 incident was the first of its type recorded.
What exactly would push the chimps to such bald-faced savagery?
The time of the year is a clue: February and December. Fruit, a major part of both chimp and gorilla diets, grows scarce during February and December. Usually chimps and gorillas share resources, but if a group is starving, they apparently might resort to inter-primate quasi-cannibalism. Fruit in Gabon is also growing even more scarce. Why?
According to the Live Science report, the answer is manmade climate change. The lowlands gorillas in the region, it should be noted, are an endangered species.
It’s well known that chimps can get violent, as chimp attack survivor Charla Nash can attest (on “Today”). It’s the organized, coldly cruel nature of the attacks that makes them so disturbing, and also so, so human.
Original Article: https://www.grunge.com/711545/the-real-reason-chimps-and-gorillas-are-going-to-war/
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At the risk of causing a new hissy fit among the climatically-challenged Chageoids: know what happened the last time scarce foods became more abundant after a period of scarcity, *that was due to ‘climate change’ also!*
If it never changed, nobody would have found a need to invent a term for it…
What makes me leary about this is, it comes from CNN.
This is horrible!! More African on African violence! It does not seem to matter what continent you put them on, the result is the same!
Tom,
You shouldn’t allow bigotry to cause you to access animals for human beings.
Intelligence isn’t spoken in your statement.
There is a point in history when share croppers were starving due to extended freezing conditions. A white man ate his pregnant wife after she died, carving her slice by slice, using salt as a preservative.
They could grow no potatoes in the hard winter freezing temperatures. Cannibalism was their form of survival.
Nothing to do with race.
Since when is a DemocRAT AKA Communist not an animal???
Tom,
You shouldn’t allow bigotry to cause you to access animals for human beings.
Intelligence isn’t spoken in your statement.
There is a point in history when share croppers were starving due to extended freezing conditions. A white man ate his pregnant wife after she died, carving her slice by slice, using salt as a preservative.
They could grow no potatoes in the hard winter freezing temperatures. Cannibalism was their form of survival.
Nothing to do with race.
How do you know that really happened? Did you see it on Communist News Network or Communist Broadcasting Service? You must be a stupid liberal racist idiot
Climate chang has been going on long before men inhabited this plant. We must learn to adapt and realize the benefits of warmer climates. Especially in Canada, Northern Europe and Siberia it is likely that crops can be grown and food production increased. Climate change will occur but it is far from all bad for humans.
Because the scumbags in the Communists Democrat Party told The Chimps that they were special victims, and they’ll never get anywhere in life without the government’s interference and teaching of critical race Theory to the gorillas , so this will help the chimps to be accepted , but the dirtbags in the Democrat Party allow The Chimps to Chimp out , murder and destroy everything in their sight without being prosecuted, until a free order Society is turned into a Democrat communist free for all, like we have in the country now, hopefully the gorillas wake up and pound the entitlement chimps into the ground, then the gorillas and the chimps team up to remove the source of all problems “corrupt government” I guess Planet of the Apes was not far-fetched it’s happening now, you wonder why primates hated the humans??