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The other even more disturbing out-group phenomenon that emerged at Gombe involved chimps who actually knew each other. Over the years, one community split into a northern and southern faction, eventually becoming separate communities. These chimpanzees had played and groomed together, reconciled after squabbles, shared meat, and lived in harmony. But the factions began to fight nonetheless. Shocked researchers watched as former friends now drank each other’s blood. Not even the oldest community members were left alone. An extremely frail-looking male, Goliath, was pummeled for twenty minutes and dragged about. Any association with the enemy was grounds for attack. If patrolling chimpanzees found fresh sleeping nests in a tree in the border region, they displayed around, pulling the branches apart until all enemy nests were destroyed.
(Frans de Waal, "Our Inner Ape")
Собственно для того, нам, гоминидам, и был выдан неокортекс размера XXL - чтобы заниматься политикой "в группах от 100 и более индивидов". Ну и продолжением политики иными средствами, тоже. |