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Did you Know? List of Facts about Chimpanzees
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Chimpanzees, trivia and information, including some useful statistics about animals will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about Chimpanzees are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - Definition: Great Apes of the genus Pan (Pan troglodytes), native to equatorial Africa and believed to be the closest extant relative to humans. Habitat: Chimpanzees live in a wide variety of habitats including tropical rainforests, woodlands, swamp forests and grasslands of Africa. They are covered with blackish hair on most of their body

  • Fact 2 - Chimpanzees are part of the great ape family and the largest of the living primates. There are four types of great apes: Gorillas, Chimpanzees, Gibbons Bonobos and  Orangutans.
  • Fact 3 - They are extremely intelligent and are able to make use of a variety of tools and understand aspects of human language
  • Fact 4 - Chimpanzees are omnivores, this means they eat both vegetables and meat. Chimpanzees live in groups (or bands) of 40 - 60 (some even larger) where grooming is a major pastime
  • Fact 5 - The word "chimpanzee" comes from the Bantu words 'Tshiluba Kivili-Chimpenze' which loosely translates to "creature that looks something like a human"
  • Fact 6 - The Chimpanzee is of the Species troglodytes. The sub-species are
    • The western subspecies found in the Ivory Coast with some small populations in Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia
    • The central subspecies found mainly in Gabon, the Congo also from eastern Nigeria to the Ubanghi River and south to the Zaire River
    • The eastern subspecies from southern Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and from there northwards to Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and southern Sudan
    • Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee in Nigeria and Cameroon
    • The Bonobo, formerly called the pygmy chimp, from in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Fact 7 - Chimpanzees are classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as
  • Endangered Species
  • Fact 8 - classification 'Endangered' (Status: Threatened) -  In the immediate probability of becoming extinct and require protection to exist. Chimpanzees are threatened by poaching, hunting, loss of habitat, and disease
  • Fact 9 - The chimpanzee makes a night nest in a tree in a new location every night
  • Fact 10 - Chimpanzees standing height: 1.7 metres (5.6 ft)
  • Fact 11 - Chimpanzees weight: 70 kg (150 lb)
  • Fact 12 - Common Chimpanzees are both arboreal and terrestrial, spending equal time in the trees and on the ground
  • Fact 13 - Arboreal refers to their movement in trees which include moving on narrow branches, moving up and down inclines, balancing, crossing gaps and dealing with obstructions. Swinging from one branch to another is called brachiating
  • Fact 14 - Chimpanzees move around by knuckle-walking (as do Gorillas and Bonobos)
  • Fact 15 - They have approximately 3 offspring in their lifetime
  • Fact 16 - Chimpanzees have opposable thumbs meaning that they can touch each of their fingers with their thumb
  • Fact 17 - Chimpanzees Lifespan: 40 years
  • Fact 18 - Chimpanzees have very long arms (the arms are longer than the legs), and a short body
  • Fact 19 - Chimpanzees have senses very similar to humans including hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch

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