CyberlyraA propos of nothing, this is such an interesting #scientific study about how #chimpanzees who have otherwise known each other and collaborated all their lives can turn against each other in a #civilwar scenario once social ties between groups start to break down.
This group saw rapid losses due to a pandemic and a change in leadership-- and between 2015-2017 the conditions were set for two rival groups to emerge and begin killing each other.
How fascinating to read the authors' conclusions how it isn't culture or religion or other kinds of differences that spark violent episodes, but social fragmentation first, from which other forms of association and de-personalization follow.
Good thing we have technologies that ensure we are brought together around shared principles and that do not seek to divide us from each other, no?
💙🩷💜Brett🐡🍉🐧