Tribal violence comes naturally to chimpanzees

Mongabay
By Brittany StewartDec 8, 2014, 1:00 pm80 pts
It all went to hell when Jane Goodall started handing out bananas. Within a few years, the previously peaceful chimpanzees she was studying split into two warring tribes. Gangs of males from the larger faction systematically slaughtered their former tribemates. All over the bananas. Or so the argument goes.

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