Stories by Nathan Rott

Nathan Rott

Correspondent, Science Desk

What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about how societies fall apart
By Nathan Rott

What a chimpanzee 'civil war' can teach us about how societies fall apart

Nathan Rott | Apr 13, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
A long-term study of the world's largest known community of chimpanzees has documented a rare event: what the researchers describe as the primate equivalent of a "civil war."