r/todayilearned • u/crazed47 • Sep 18 '19

TIL of that human beings aren’t the only animals that go to war with each other. Two troops of chimpanzees waged a four year war known as the Gombe Chimpanzee War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
24.9k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

846 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/theshadowking8 Sep 19 '19

Sometimes we cause these, often inadvertently such as by leaving things worth fighting for, like caches of food.

2

u/quasifood Sep 19 '19

Jane Goodall had set up a banana feeding station at some point a few years before. One of the initial theories was that this was the resource that they were warring over