Common Chimpanzee - The great ape smart

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CommonChimpanzee

They are highly intelligent.

98%Chimpanzees are the closets living primate to humans with DNA similarity of

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There are four subspecies

Size: 4.5 - 5 feet.

Weight: 90- 145 lb.

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It is considered more robust than the bonobo chimpanzee.

Chimpanzees are found predominantly in moist and dry forests, and into savanna woodlands.

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Africa

They can form subgroups.

The common chimpanzee is both arboreal and terrestrial.Chimpanzees live in family groups of 15 to 120 animals.

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Chimpanzees communicate with a wide

variety of gestures, postures, and facial

expressions.

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The majority of the chimpanzee diet consists

of fruit and leaves.

5% of their diet consists of ants and

termites.

Isolated cases of cannibalism have also

been documented.

Chimpanzees mate throughout the year.Its gestation period is eight months.

For their first 30 days, infants cling to their

mother's bellies. When they reach five to six months,

infants ride on their mothers’ backs.

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Conservation status

170,000 - 300,000 individuals

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EndangeredPopulationDecreasing

Habitat loss from mining, forestry and agriculture

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Are the major threats to wild chimpanzees

DeforestationBushmeatHuman diseases

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