Man is a featherless biped
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>Within their own communities, male chimpanzees spend much of their time scheming in order to move up in dominance. The successful ones usually accomplish this by forming temporary alliances with a few other males in order to physically dominate the rest. These alliances are often created by sharing meat and other prized foods as well as grooming each other. Female chimpanzees apparently do not take part in this constantly changing, often violent political restructuring of their community.
>An even darker side of male chimpanzee behavior is that they occasionally murder members of other chimpanzee communities. Groups of males periodically go on aggressive raids into neighboring territories where they isolate individual males and then violently beat and bite them to death. Over time, these marauding gangs will kill all of the males in the targeted communities if they can. They also have been observed eating the infants there, but they usually leave their mothers alone. This behavior has been recorded at several locations in East Africa. The motivations of the killers is not entirely clear, but the net effect is to increase their territory and food resources and at the same time reduce competition for potential mates. This kind of murderous behavior is, of course, reminiscent of humans as well. There are many instances of it in our own history.
It's a shame Plato died before ever seeing a Chimpanzee. Would be interesting to see his reaction to their behavior.
>An even darker side of male chimpanzee behavior is that they occasionally murder members of other chimpanzee communities. Groups of males periodically go on aggressive raids into neighboring territories where they isolate individual males and then violently beat and bite them to death. Over time, these marauding gangs will kill all of the males in the targeted communities if they can. They also have been observed eating the infants there, but they usually leave their mothers alone. This behavior has been recorded at several locations in East Africa. The motivations of the killers is not entirely clear, but the net effect is to increase their territory and food resources and at the same time reduce competition for potential mates. This kind of murderous behavior is, of course, reminiscent of humans as well. There are many instances of it in our own history.
It's a shame Plato died before ever seeing a Chimpanzee. Would be interesting to see his reaction to their behavior.
