Chimpanzees conduct organized warfare. It closely resembles the kind of warfare that some indigenous Amazonian tribes conduct. It involves deliberate, organized, nighttime raids on neighboring groups of chimpanzees, and it includes what we'd call "war crimes" - gratuitous violence. Chimpanzees don't just kill their perceived enemies, they go out of their way to torture and dismember them. They indulge in orgies of cruelty and horrific violence. The males also rape females, and not just females of different "tribes" or groups. They rape members of their own group. The females struggle to get away, protest, and scream, but the males are stronger, and get their way.
Bonobos, the relatively recently discovered, or at least identified, species of chimps are distinct from the more well-known chimps, are morphologically different in subtle ways which are not easily visible to human beings, and are not into warfare, rape, torture, etc. They've been known to kill their own kind, too, but only very rarely. Bonobos are into promiscuous sex. They "make love, not war." Hence their nickname "hippie chimps."
What everyone is itching to say: We are the only primate which conducts organized warfare of any kind.
Chimpanzees conduct organized warfare. It closely resembles the kind of warfare that some indigenous Amazonian tribes conduct. It involves deliberate, organized, nighttime raids on neighboring groups of chimpanzees, and it includes what we'd call "war crimes" - gratuitous violence. Chimpanzees don't just kill their perceived enemies, they go out of their way to torture and dismember them. They indulge in orgies of cruelty and horrific violence. The males also rape females, and not just females of different "tribes" or groups. They rape members of their own group. The females struggle to get away, protest, and scream, but the males are stronger, and get their way.
Bonobos, the relatively recently discovered, or at least identified, species of chimps are distinct from the more well-known chimps, are morphologically different in subtle ways which are not easily visible to human beings, and are not into warfare, rape, torture, etc. They've been known to kill their own kind, too, but only very rarely. Bonobos are into promiscuous sex. They "make love, not war." Hence their nickname "hippie chimps."
They don't call it "bonobo warfare".