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Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee has a common Name as chimp. Its genus is pan, and species is troglodytes. Chimpanzee is about 3-5 feet tall and its weight is about 99-176 pounds. Chimpanzee has black hair, and the old ones are very often bald, but the female is more complete baldness. Its face is hairless, and the infants have pink faces, which turn darker when they are growing. Normally, chimpanzee has no tail, but the infants have a white tail tuft. Favorite foods of chimpanzees are fruits and young. In the dry season, it will eat buds and blossoms, soft pitch, stems, galls, honey, bark and resin, seeds and nuts. While searching for food, troops will move around their territory, never staying long in one place. This allows the vegetation to recover before the chimps return to the area again. Chimpanzee reaches puberty at about seven years. Female matures from three to four years will not breed for three to four years after giving birth. They are capable of reproducing until the age of 40. The maximum life span in the wild is about 60 years. The newborns are helpless at birth. After a few days it holds on to the mother's hair. By four months, the infants usually walk, but they stay close to their mothers for about five to seven months. Chimp communities are made up of 15 to 100 members. Chimpanzee has developed several behavioral adaptations. At night, it constructs nests of leaves and branches about 18-29 feet high on a tree. Male will hunt cooperatively for baby monkeys or bush pigs. Some groups have been observed to use thin twigs or blades of grass to extract termites from their nests. Some of chimpanzees in western Africa are intelligent. They use wood and stone tools as hammers to open nuts. There are about 35,000 chimpanzees in the wild. Normally, enemies of chimpanzees are human.

Chimpanzee. Photo by Someta.