A raging warfare among apes sounds like a mythical script for a Hollywood blockbuster but in Gombe National Park in western Tanzania, this is an actual life account of life events that struck among two chimpanzee communities of Kasakela and Kahama between 1974-1978. At the time. what was once a unified Kasakela community started crumbling in the wake of 1974 and within 8 months a large group of chimpanzees had migrated to the south of Kasakela and was renamed the Kahama group under the leadership of the brothers Hugh and Charlie in company of four other males, Goliath, Godi, De, and Sniff.

Over the course of the four-year conflict, males viciously took out all males of the Kahama community from the Kasekela community resulting in the disbandment of the community. The first male of the Kahama community to fall into the fatal predicament was Godi who was killed in an ambush attack as he was feeding in solitude. This was the first ever-documented event of a deliberate kill of a chimpanzee by fellow chimps. In celebration of their barbaric act, the six male chimpanzee of the Kasakela community, Humphrey, Figan, Jomeo, Sherry, Evered and Rodolf hooted and screamed away throwing and dragging branches.

After Godi, came the fate of De, then Hugh. Goliath, who had been rather kind and affectionate to the Kasakela community despite the ongoing conflict between the communities, also fell into the hands of the raging Kasekela males who brutally took his life with all disregard for his congeniality. With diminished defenses from the other males who were already killed, Charlie was the next to fall into the fateful hands of the Kasekela males and about a year afterwards Sniff was the last male to be taken down. With no male to one to defend the territory, the one female of the Kahama community was killed, three beaten and kidnapped and two went missing. With not much left to stand for the Kahama community, the Kasekela community overtook the territory.