Facts about Chimpanzees

Facts about Chimpanzees are the special features and key points about the chimpanzee species that travelers must know about even before they travel. Chimpanzees are intelligent endangered chimpanzees that survive in the tropical rainforest, in Uganda they can be found in kibale national park, Budongo forest in Murchison fall national park, Kalizu forest, Kiyomura gorge in Queen Elizabeth national park. Chimpanzees are great apes who are native to the continent of Africa, chimpanzees share 98% DNA to that of human genes and they are endangered species. Today, there are approximately 170,000-300,000 chimpanzees left in Africa and their population is decreasing rapidly.

Below are the facts about chimpanzees giving you the right information about chimpanzee’s social behavior and natural habitat, along with facts about chimpanzee’s protection.

Chimpanzees are omnivores and they feed their diet on a variety of fruits and leaves but also eat eggs, nuts, insects and even hunts monkeys.
Chimpanzee are said to have 98% DNA to those of human genes.
They are covered by coarse black hair, with a bare face, fingers, toes, soles of the feet and palms of the hands.
Chimpanzees are larger than the bonobo, weighing 40 to 60kg for males and female weighing 27 to 50kg.
Chimpanzees undergo a gestation period of eight months.
The great apes’ ‘chimpanzees’’ lives in groups which range in size from 15 to 150 members, although individuals forage in much smaller groups during the day.
Chimpanzees they use tools for hunting, acquiring hunting, termites, ants, nuts, water and such tools include modified sticks, rocks, grass and leaves.
They also create sharpened sticks to spear small mammals.
They build more robust than the bonobo’s but less than the gorilla’s.
The arms of chimpanzees are longer than its legs and can reach below the knees.
Chimpanzee’s hands have long fingers with short thumbs and flat fingernails and the feet are adapted for grasping, with big toe.
They have rounded prominent face with forwarding face eyes, small nose, a long mobile upper lip, rounded non-lobed ears and in adult males, sharp canine teeth.
Chimpanzee have black hair but can turn into brown when they are older.
Chimpanzee live in variety of habitats including the dry savannah, montane forest swamp forest and dry woodland savannah.
The average lifespan of chimpanzees is 50 years, captive chimpanzees can live more than 60 years.
Chimpanzees feed on fruits, seeds, nuts, blossoms, leaves and many other kinds of insects.
Chimpanzees use more tools for more purposes than other creatures except humans.
Chimpanzees like climbing and swinging the trees and by walking on all four legs.
Female chimpanzees reproduce at the age of 13 and can give birth at any time of the year.
Chimpanzees make around 30 different vocalisations to communicate and the loudest is the pant hoot and the long distance call used for a variety of social reason.
Female chimpanzees mate with several males in their community whereas males have large testicles for sperm competition.
Female chimpanzees provide their young ones with food, protection and warmth and can teach them certain skills.
Chimpanzees start wandering short distances from their mothers at about 8 months of age.
Chimpanzee are like humans, they use facial expressions to convey emotions.
It is known that chimpanzees are habitat near water but they cannot swim, due to the structure and density of their bodies.
Chimpanzees have emotions similar to those we call pleasure, boredom, joy, grief, anger, sorrow, pleasure and depression.
Amazingly the oldest recorded chimpanzees to live but as captive female was between 76 to 82 years old and died in 2017.

Female chimpanzee has reproductive maturity of 13 age and can give birth at any time of the year.
Chimpanzee live in social groups in a wide group known as community and each member know each other individually, the communities consist up to 150 individuals.
Chimpanzee also become aggressive but when they are attacked, to note groups of male chimps can plan and execute attacks on other chimpanzees thus causing serious injuries and fatalities.
Chimpanzee do communicate and they consist 30 different vocalisations and the most used and loudest is the pant-hoot which is a long-distance call used for a variety of social reasons.
Chimpanzee are strong apes which estimates to be four times stronger than a human of a similar size. They can reach a speed of 25mph when it comes to running and note that’s not even what they are built for.
When chimpanzees become angry their hair stands on end.
Chimpanzee are endangered animals and they live in rain forest areas.