![]() In addition, infighting for power between the three highest ranking males and an unusually skewed male to female ratio defined the community during this year. It was found that between 19, the year preceding the war, the community was forming and solidifying subgroups, or cliques. ![]() Data from the five years leading to the war were used to map the chimpanzee’s social networks, determined by grooming and association, to determine the catalysts of the fracture. Goodall’s copious field notes, digitized at the Jane Goodall Institute Research Center at Duke University, were used to further analyze the catalysts of the growing friction that resulted in the once cohesive community’s eventual fission. Goodall’s early years at Gombe, she witnessed the entirety of the only known civil war among a chimpanzee community.ĭr. Gombe’s “4 year war” was Started Because of a Power Struggle The following studies continue to show just how much we have in common with chimpanzees. With World Chimpanzee Day fast approaching on July 14th, this is an opportune time to reflect on some of the most interesting similarities we share with our closest living relative, chimpanzees. Today, chimpanzee research at Gombe and elsewhere has continued to tease apart the distinctions between chimpanzees, humans, and other apes. Goodall’s pioneering discoveries, which removed the assumed separation between us and the rest of the animal kingdom, captivated the world. She discovered that chimpanzees use tools, engage in cooperative hunting, and form strong bonds with family and community members. ![]() Jane Goodall’s research in 1960, she knew that humans and chimpanzees share many similarities.
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