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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
When Jane Goodall witnessed a chimpanzee troop split into two bands in 1974, she called the event a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity. Now, a group of chimp researchers fears missing its own once-in-a-lifetime moment because of the coronavirus pandemic. Two years ago, they, too, witnessed a chimp group fission at Kibale National Park in Uganda. The consequences surprised them: Males of one group recently attacked the other and beat up the females. "I would have never predicted that males that have grown up together would be at each other's throats," says John Mitani, a primatologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. But he and his colleagues are likely to remain ignorant about how this power struggle plays out over the coming months or even the next year.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, most of the research team has left the country. Mitani says such precautions make sense for both humans and chimps, who are likely vulnerable to COVID-19, too, according to an 11 April preprint on bioRxiv. But he and his colleagues may miss the rare events that structure chimpanzee society.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @04:45PM (3 children)
Guess you're right, "the hippies of the 60s and 70s" should've just invented a time machine and killed Hitler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Monday April 20 2020, @08:17PM
I could be that USSR and communism were relevant to the time the hippies were active.
The fascists and nazis were from a time before they were born.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 20 2020, @09:53PM
Franco's fascists remained in power until the mid 70s.
Russia's communism started even before WWII, when Goodall was just a child.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2020, @02:28AM
I did that, except his name was Frank in the last go-around. Hitler is what replaced him, and I learned my lesson so we're stuck with him. Trust me, it's better this way. Frank was a real asshole.