Chimpanzees have been described as highly territorial and are known to kill other chimps, although Margaret Power wrote in her 1991 book The Egalitarians that the field studies from which the aggressive data came, Gombe and Mahale, use artificial feeding systems that increased aggression in the chimpanzee populations studied, so might not reflect innate characteristics of the species as a whole.

Chimpanzees make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays ; they have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank ; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception ; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence.

Chimpanzees live in groups of about 50 individuals whereas humans typically have a social circle of about 150 people, which is now referred to as Dunbar's number.

An enclosure that houses a group of eight Common Chimpanzees, three males and five females.

Chimpanzees were amongst the animals affected during the Toba eruption, hinting that Toba ash extended far west as Africa.

Chimpanzees grooming one another.

Chimpanzees have complex social relationships and spend a large amount of time grooming each other.

Chimpanzees use a variety of facial expressions, postures and sounds to communicate with each other.

Chimpanzees near Kédougou, Senegal have been observed to create spears by breaking straight limbs off trees, stripping them of their bark and side branches, and sharpening one end with their teeth.

Chimpanzees have lower limbs that are specialized for manipulation, and ( arguably ) have fingers on their lower limbs as well.

Chimpanzees in Kibale National Park, Uganda, have been observed to consume soil rich in kaolinite clay shortly before or after consuming plants including Trichilia rubescens, which possesses antimalarial properties in the laboratory.

Chimpanzees have high promiscuity and large testes compared to body weight ( 0. 3 %).

states: " Chimpanzees in the wild do not point, and rarely do so in captivity, however there is a documented case of one named Kanzi, described by Savage-Rumbaugh et al., who could indicate direction of travel by ' extending his hand.

Chimpanzees are members of the Hominidae family, along with gorillas, humans, and orangutans.

Chimpanzees split from the human branch of the family about 4 to 6 million years ago.

Chimpanzees are the only known members of the Panina subtribe.

Chimpanzees and elephants are known to throw leaves and branches over fallen members of their family groups.

Chimpanzees have great difficulty in similar innovative tasks.

Chimpanzees are closest to humans genetically, sharing more than 98 % of their DNA code with humans, and their digestive tract is functionally very similar to that of humans.

Chimpanzees are primarily frugivores, but they could and would consume and digest animal flesh, given the opportunity.

Chimpanzees in different parts of Africa have developed tools that are used in food acquisition, demonstrating a form of animal culture.

Chimpanzees have been observed using large sticks as hammers to crack nuts, using logs as anvils.

( Chimpanzees don't shed tears.

Chimpanzees show deference to the alpha of the community by ritualised gestures such as bowing, allowing the alpha to walk first in a procession, or standing aside when the alpha challenges.

The three-day conference, convened to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Jane Goodall's work in Tanzania on Chimpanzees, gathered together international researchers working on sociality in a wide variety of vertebrates, including humans, primates, other mammals, and birds.

Chimpanzees have a laryngeal structure very different from that of humans, as well as no voluntary control of their breathing.

Though Oliver's health may have been compromised by being kept for long periods of time under unsatisfactory conditions prior to his arrival at Primarily Primates, he had barely exceeded half the usual lifespan of captive Common Chimpanzees which survive to adulthood.

Asado, dulce de leche, empanadas, and yerba mate are found throughout Argentina.

Females reach maturity in twenty to twenty-four months, and males around twelve months ( although they do not usually mate until at least three years old ), and mating occurs throughout the year.

When shaken, it becomes creamy ( since the foam formed becomes well mixed throughout the beverage and lasts for some time ), known as mate batido.

Slugs mate and lay eggs throughout the year.

Giant anteaters can mate throughout the year.

If James ' final choice from among the mates was gay, James and the mate would win a cash prize and a trip for two to New Zealand provided by Alyson Adventures of Key West, Florida, which specializes in gay and lesbian small group tours throughout the world.

A theme throughout the first season was Marriott's attempt to ascertain which of the twenty contestants were sincere and which ones were simply seeking a wealthy mate.

The story follows the bird throughout a year during its migration to South America and return to the Canadian Arctic in search of a mate.

Vanauken inherited a substantial amount of money and used some of it to have a boat built which they named Grey Goose, for the bird which remains true to one mate throughout life.

This led to a change in their mating strategy ; rather than seeking multiple female partners and mating with them hoping they were fecund during that period, males instead chose to mate with a particular female multiple times throughout her menstrual cycle.

Mika Häkkinen was consistently faster than his team mate David Coulthard throughout the race weekend, unable to match his pace, even though they were in the same car.

With Michael Schumacher's team mate, Rubens Barrichello, tallying 11 podiums throughout the season, Ferrari also won the Constructor ’ s Championship at a canter.

* The independent film Jailbait focuses on Randy, a 20 year old convict, imprisoned for the first time and, although never shown, it is heavily implied throughout the film and revealed at the end that Randy is raped multiple times at the hands of his cell mate, Jake.

" His band mate and brother Tito Jackson replies, as he has been doing throughout the song, by reiterating Gil Bridges ' reasoning: " we ain't have time to write none ".

Females went through estrous at 3 week intervals and could mate throughout the year.

She reflects on the unwavering love and devotion that Vanraj showed her throughout their whole relationship, and realises that Vanraj was her true soul mate.

" He continued to use the coonskin cap as a trademark throughout his political career, which included unsuccessful campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952 and 1956, an unsuccessful campaign for the Vice Presidency as Adlai Stevenson's running mate in 1956, and successful Senatorial re-election campaigns in 1954 and 1960.

Cape porcupines mate throughout the year, although births are most common during the rainy season, between August and March.