The female chimpanzee that killed and ate infants during the Gombe war was Passion.
Passion was a high-ranking female in the Kasakela community at Gombe Stream, Tanzania. During the 1970s, she and her daughter, Pom, were observed capturing, killing, and eating newborn chimpanzees belonging to other females. The episodes became one of Jane Goodall’s most disturbing observations of chimpanzee behaviour.
The killings occurred around the same period as the Gombe Chimpanzee War, fought between the Kasakela and breakaway Kahama communities from 1974 to 1978. The war and the infanticide challenged the idea that chimpanzees were naturally peaceful or uniformly gentle. However, Passion’s behaviour should not be confused with the territorial fighting itself: she was a female associated with cannibalistic infanticide, while the war mainly involved organized male patrols and attacks between communities.
Pom is the common mix-up because she helped Passion seize infants. Passion remained the principal adult female identified with the killings.