Fascinating facts about chimpanzees; First of all, Chimpanzees are our closest cousins whom we share 99% of human DNA than we do to gorillas. In the world wild chimpanzees can be found in numbery of countries with majority in central Africa and the largest population of chimpanzee species can be seen in rainforest since they need water supply and abundance of fruits as their diet.
In Uganda we have a total of about 5,000 chimpanzee individuals and the highest concentration of chimpanzees can be encountered in Kibale National Park and the other in Budongo forest in Murchison Falls national park, Kyambura Gorge in Queen Elizabeth national park, Kalinzu forest among others.
Below are the facts about Chimpanzee species
Chimpanzees share 99% of the same DNA with humans meaning we are closely related to them and bonobos than we do to gorillas.
Wild Chimpanzees can only be done in Africa mostly in Central Africa.
They are so emotional to learn human languages like Sing language, have been taught how to communicate like we humans.
Chimpanzees are one of the few species that are common in use of tools as a way of feeding and protecting themselves. They also use these tools to dig out termites from their mounds, smashing rocks to crack open nuts to search the right length of twig to scratch themselves.
They are omnivorous species; Meaning are happy to eat most of foods though they tend to eat more fruits than any other food groups. Their diet is comprised of everything from seeds, leaves, honey, insects and roots. Chimpanzees also tend to hunt other small wildlife like monkeys or small antelopes for meat and their feeding habits is an individual activity though sometimes can work together which is occasionally.
Infants have white tails tuft that disappears after their childhood.
Chimpanzees can be found in about 21 African countries, mostly in central Africa.
Chimpanzees have a complex family and social structures, meaning they live in group size and composition keeps on changing over and over. The group is headed by one dominant alpha male.
Female chimpanzees only give birth once every five years and they carry one child. The infant chimpanzees will cling on to its mother’s fur and ride on her back till it reaches the age of three to five.
They can live up to 80 years as the research shows about the oldest recorded chimpanzees who was called Little Mamma, a captive female who was between 76 -82 years old and later died in 2017. Another report talks about chimpanzees in Kibale National Park in Uganda.
Chimpanzees can walk two legs like we humans. They are good in climbing and swinging from tree to tree unlike the gorillas. Still they can walk on all fours – as knuckle walking but have been recorded to walk on two feet on feet –occasion.
Currently, chimpanzees were declared as endangered species by the international Union for the Conservation of Nature. This is due to the increasing human activities like logging, oil extraction, mining and highway projects and natural habitats of chimpanzees have significantly impacted.
More so, chimpanzees are one of four types of great apes such as Chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans.
Their diet is fruits, nuts, seeds, blossoms, leaves and other kinds of insects.
Chimpanzees have a wide taste that’s why they live in a wide variety of habitats. Unlike gorillas who have narrower diets.
When they play they laugh.
Chimpanzees groom each other that helps in relations within the community and calm nervous.
When they are frightened their hair stands on end.
The male chimpanzees show their power in display in such way of looking bigger, screaming, stamp their feet and dragging branches, go on a tear or hurling rocks.
Chimpanzees have opposable thumbs and opposable big toes which ease them to grip things with their feet.
They do communicate much like humans by embracin89g, patting on the back, touching hands, ticking and Kissing.
When chimpanzee mother dies, her orphaned offspring may be unable to survive, which often adopt their orphaned brothers or sister and infants are adopted by chimps which are not related to them.
