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TIL two tribes of chimpanzees were observed to have engaged in a four year civil war. The war consisted of separatists from an existing chimp tribe. The chimps engaged in cannibalism & they fought over territorial gains. The result ended in the complete decimation of the separatists chimpanzees.

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