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Maybe you should watch more animal documentaries.
While some animals do form groups, those groups are extremely hostile towards other groups of the same species. Watch any chimp documentary and you'll see that different groups tear each other apart in competition for territory and hunting grounds. Basically their group is their siblings and relatives, and the rest are all enemies. Male lions will wander into another pride, and if they can chase of the male they will eat the existing cubs and mate with the lionesses there, with or without consent.
Solitary animals are the same, see what happens when one grizzly bear wanders into another's territory.
I understand why some humans would form a group as there is strength in numbers as well as many other advantages. The question is why don't we just wipe out all the surrounding inferior tribes. USA could easily just launch an offensive against Jamaica, or the Dominican Republic, wipe out their entire populations, and they would expand their territory and have access to a whole lot more resources, vacation spots, etc... why is this wrong tho?
I'm well aware of those things that occur in the animal kingdom. Apparently you're not aware of the history of your own species, which is vastly more disturbing. You ask why we don't wipe out other tribes?
We do.
Hitler. Stalin. Pol Pot. The Mongols. The Huns. The Crusades. Imperial Japan. The Rwandan Genocide. Milosevic. The Ottoman Empire. The genocide of the Native Americans. The Spanish conquests. The list goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, throughout history, up to and including today.
We murder and genocide and enslave for resources. We do it for power and control. We do it for cultural differences. We do it for racial differences. We do it for religious differences. We do it for all of these reasons and more. And we do it on a scale vastly larger than that of chimpanzee tribes (though I do find it funny that the species you give as an example just so happens to be the one that's most closely related to humans).