Chimpanzees

The chimpanzee and the bonobo taxonomically these two ape species are collectively termed panins.

Chimpanzees. A number of researchers have taught chimpanzees to use sign language or languages based on the display of tokens or pictorial symbols. They can share a home range that they protect from intruders and will sometimes forage for foods in groups. They are intelligent curious noisy and social. The chimpanzee pan troglodytes also known as the common chimpanzee robust chimpanzee or simply chimp is a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical africa it has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies.

Humans and chimps are also. Like us chimps are highly social animals care for their offspring for years and can live to be over 50. Chimpanzees are attacking people in uganda part of a disturbing trend going on in the country that has led to crop loss and even death. We share about 98 of our genes.

Chimpanzees pantroglodytes are one of only two species in the genus pan the other being the bonobo panpaniscus and we re equally closely related to both species evolutionary biologists believe that humans chimps and bonobos shared a common ancestor around 7 million years ago. Chimpanzees are great apes found across central and west africa. In fact chimpanzees are our closest cousins. However both species are more commonly referred to collectively using the generalized term chimpanzees or chimps together with humans gorillas and orangutans they are part of the family hominidae the great apes or hominids.

In their habitat in the forests of central africa chimpanzees spend most of their days in the treetops. Visit the chimpanzee website to watch videos browse photos download educational materials and buy the movie on blu ray and dvd. The genus pan consists of two extant species. The implications of these language studies have been contested however.

Along with bonobos they are our closest living relatives sharing 98 7 percent of our genetic blueprint. Chimpanzees inhabit tropical forests and savannas of equatorial africa from senegal in the west to lake albert and northwestern tanzania in the east. The chimpanzee is the mammal most like a human. National geographic reports that the problem has been going.

The chimpanzee and the closely related bonobo sometimes called the pygmy chimpanzee are classified in the genus pan.