Scientists from Uganda described in their 2021 study a grisly encounter among albino chimps back in 2018, when elder apes murdered a baby albino.
Spotting an albino chimp in the wild has been considered as a rare sighting according to researchers, in which only a few of the nonhuman primates with albinism was recorded so far, including some toque macaques (
Macaca sinica), bonnet macaques (
Macaca radiata) and spider monkeys (
Ateles geoffroyi). Among the great apes was an albino western lowland gorilla which was captured in the wild when it was still a baby and had lived its adult life in the cage until its death.