Naturally, "Chimpanzee gangs kill for land, new study shows"

[MrsSmith]

n2doc Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Jun-21-10 08:20 PM

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Chimpanzee gangs kill for land, new study shows   Updated at 8:03 PM
   
Published: Monday, June 21, 2010 - 11:34 in Paleontology & Archaeology
Bands of chimpanzees violently kill individuals from neighboring groups in order to expand their own territory, according to a 10-year study of a chimp community in Uganda that provides the first definitive evidence for this long-suspected function of this behavior. University of Michigan primate behavioral ecologist John Mitani's findings are published in the June 22 issue of Current Biology.

During a decade of study, the researchers witnessed 18 fatal attacks and found signs of three others perpetrated by members of a large community of about 150 chimps at Ngogo, Kibale National Park.

Then in the summer of 2009, the Ngogo chimpanzees began to use the area where two-thirds of these events occurred, expanding their territory by 22 percent. They traveled, socialized and fed on their favorite fruits in the new region.

"When they started to move into this area, it didn't take much time to realize that they had killed a lot of other chimpanzees there," Mitani said. "Our observations help to resolve long-standing questions about the function of lethal intergroup aggression in chimpanzees."

chollybocker  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Mon Jun-21-10 09:08 PM
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2. The Bush jokes just write themselves, don't they?
   

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Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jun-21-10 09:40 PM
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3. The patriarchy has even ruined the chimps, dammit! nt

This may never turn into a bonfire...but still, aren't these the same people that use animal behavior to justify behaviors they like??     Isn'r it strange how those same animal behaviors don't justify things they dislike?   

[PatriotGame]

Codeine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Mon Jun-21-10 09:40 PM
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3. The patriarchy has even ruined the chimps, dammit! nt

And, DUmmys kill for free weed!

Queue the opening scenes to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey...revel the DUmmys in their natural state AND at the TOP of their intellectual horsepower's evolution.