r/nature • u/ADragonFromTheAbyss • 2d ago

Largest known wild chimp group splits in Two

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/ngogo-chimpanzee-conflict
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u/Unhappy-Decision-490 2d ago

Visited this group a couple ago. Was amazing to be around them but also slightly terrifying. Splitting up is natural though. Look how many gorilla families there are in Uganda

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u/Twisted-Mentat- 2d ago

You should have been terrified. You honestly couldn't pay me enough to get near a chimp.

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u/Unhappy-Decision-490 2d ago

They mostly stayed in the trees and were on the move. Now being around the gorillas was way cooler. They did not give a F about us and just went about their business as usual. Got within 5ft of them.

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u/weirdgroovynerd 2d ago

Not even if you got paid a...

chimpanzillion dollars?!

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u/Facts_pls 1d ago

Iconic little finger curl

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u/FishWithLegsAndArms 2d ago

Ah lads its happening again

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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss 2d ago

Overpopulation on chimpamzees sounds terrifying tbh

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u/FishWithLegsAndArms 2d ago

Well the good news is they'll probably reduce their population when they start killing each other 

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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss 2d ago

* other males and toddlers specifically (!)

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u/TastySore 2d ago

More chicks for everyone else, nice.

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u/un1ptf 2d ago

Nope. It's a new article referring to the big split in 2015 and ongoing killings between the two groups between 2018 and 2024.

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u/Haunt_Fox 2d ago

Societies are like living cells. They get so big, then they're destined to split. That's why empire-building is always a terrible idea, destined to eventually fail.

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u/exotics 2d ago

The human population has more than doubled in my lifetime.

Years ago as human populations grew people moved into other less populated territories… now we fight each other.

I had one kid and one only. We can’t keep adding people to the planet

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u/weirdgroovynerd 2d ago

"The human population has more than doubled in my lifetime."

Damn bro, wear a condom or something!

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u/exotics 2d ago

Ha ha. I’m actually female and did get my tubes tied after having one kid. The population growth I’ve seen is astounding and if you grew up in a time with 7 billion people then the growth to 8 might not be noticeable but I’ve seen cities double in size and nature shrink

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u/spookytransexughost 1d ago

How old are you

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u/Shadowrain 1d ago

I'd say they're somewhere north of 50

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u/exotics 1d ago

I’m old. 61 and female. So I’m definitely not the typical Reddit demographic.

The human population when I was born was 3.27 billion. It’s over 8 billion now and it makes me sick. I’ve seen beautiful places turn into parking lots and nobody seems to care.

I had one kid only and got my tubes tied after.

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u/Haunt_Fox 2d ago

Why do you think eyes are on the moon and Mars again?

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u/legomaniac89 2d ago

So billionaires can go build their utopia while the rest of us can burn on the world they destroyed?

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u/CaptainObvious110 2d ago

hmm good point

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u/Haunt_Fox 2d ago

You think they're going to clean their own toilets and maintain their own robots?

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u/Just_NickM 9h ago

They think they’ll have AI powered robots to do the grunt work for them

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u/ADragonFromTheAbyss 2d ago

Helium-3 is another vital " resource " to them

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u/sarahface 2d ago

Right in Two?

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u/frederic055 2d ago

Yep, really awkward when they were counting and there was one chimp left over.

Poor Jerry.

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u/chromatophoreskin 2d ago

Somehow my eyes skipped over 'group' and it sounded like very late stage mitosis

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u/cdnmtbguy 2d ago

Hmmmm. Sounds like America.