Chimpanzee Territory Expansion. The Ngogo chimps have added bits and pieces to their 11-square-mile (29-square-kilometer) territory over the years, Mitani said.

Last year, the Ngogo chimps stopped patrolling the region and annexed it outright, increasing their home territory by 22 percent, Dr. Mitani said in a report being published Tuesday in Current ...

After the chimps picked off their neighbours, they eventually took over their territory. It seems that chimps kill for land. The vast majority of these murders were carried out by groups of Ngogo ...

In mid-2009, his team noticed that the Ngogo chimps had finally seized part of the home range of their rivals, so increasing the size of their territory by 6.4 square kilometres, or 22 per cent.

Between 1999 and 2008, the Ngogo chimpanzees attacked and killed 13 chimpanzees (four adult males and nine younger animals) in the neighboring group's territory during boundary patrols.

After the chimps picked off their neighbours, they eventually took over their territory. It seems that chimps kill for land. The vast majority of these murders were carried out by groups of Ngogo ...

But last year, the raids stopped – the Ngogo had simply annexed a territory nearby that had once belonged to another troop. The scientists speculated that the chimps were making war in order to ...

The footage of the so-called Ngogo chimps, which live in a remote region of Uganda's Kibale National Park, comes from an upcoming Netflix documentary series Chimp Empire. It premieres on April 19 ...

Chimps kill chimps. And according to a 10-year study of Ngogo chimps in Uganda, they do it to defend and extend their territory. John Mitani documented 21 chimp-on-chimp killings during the study, 18 ...

“Chimp Empire” is not the first wildlife documentary to feature the Ngogo chimpanzees. James Reed, who directed the series, also helmed the 2017 documentary “Rise of the Warrior Apes,” in which the ...

The chimpanzees in the next territory over seem to do this less: ... Hunting Behavior of Chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 23, 1–28.

The chimpanzees in the next territory over seem to do this less: ... Hunting Behavior of Chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 23, 1–28.