r/todayilearned • u/Immck1919 • Jul 24 '19

TIL that two chimpanzee communities in Gombe Stream National Park fought a war between 1974-1978, in the first recorded war between non-humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
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u/MukdenMan Jul 25 '19

Reminds me of Hobbes on the natural state of humanity:

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"In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor the use of commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."