The elephant ( though its range has become restricted through the attacks of hunters ) is found both in the savannas and forest regions, the latter being otherwise poor in large game, though the special habitat of the chimpanzee and gorilla.

The common chimpanzee is covered in coarse black hair, but has a bare face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

Because no species other than Homo sapiens has survived from the human line of that branching, both chimpanzee species are the closest living relatives of humans.

In some cases, the common chimpanzee has been documented killing leopard cubs, an act which primarily seems to be a protective effort.

While it has been known since Jane Goodall's 1960s discovery that modern chimpanzees use tools, research published in 2007 indicates that chimpanzee stone tool use dates to at least 4, 300 years ago.

Additionally, our closest extant relative, the chimpanzee, has light skin covered by thick body hair.

Of the closest surviving relatives of the human species, Pan, the common chimpanzee has an omnivorous diet, which includes troop hunting behaviour based on beta males being led by an alpha male.

Another species of chimpanzee, the bonobo, has also been observed to engage in group hunting, but eats a mostly frugivorous diet.

The bonobo also has a slim upper body, narrow shoulders, thin neck, and long legs when compared to the common chimpanzee.

Multivariate analysis has shown bonobos are more neotenized than the common chimpanzee, taking into account such features as the proportionately long torso length of the bonobo.

It has been suggested that higher levels of aggression and conflict with other chimpanzee groups in the area were consequences of the feeding, which could have created the " wars " between chimpanzee social groups described by Goodall, aspects of which she did not witness in the years before artificial feeding began at Gombe.

The Genome Sequencing Center has decoded the genome of many animals, plants, and cellular organisms, including the platypus, chimpanzee, cat, and corn.

A recent study of the Western chimpanzee has revealed that local chimps hunt the Senegal bushbaby using fashioned spears.

Recently, chimpanzee theory of mind has been advanced by Felix Warneken of the Max Planck Institute.

The zoo also has breeding firsts, including the first black rhino born in Britain in 1958, the first squirrel monkey born in captivity in 1953 and the first chimpanzee born in Europe in 1934.

A moral argument associated with this is the Great Ape personhood debate, which has become especially poignant since the recent advocacy by some scientists to move the two chimpanzee species into the genus Homo ( previously it was considered a hominid ).

She also has a companion-primate ( chimpanzee ) like Pippi Longstocking does ; but instead of superhuman strength, Eliza has the " super-power " of being able to talk to animals.

: Speed Racer has a younger brother named Spritle, originally and Chispita in the Latin American version who, along with his pet chimpanzee, who responded to the name of Chim-Chim in the American version, in the Japanese original, constantly got into mischief by hiding in the trunks of cars.

It isn't a real drum that we hear today, it is the chimpanzee who has stopped breathing and is beating his chest.

Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently led a team of researchers to find that chimpanzees do die from simian AIDS in the wild and that the AIDS outbreak in Africa has contributed to the decline of chimpanzee populations.

Upon arriving at the studio, bedraggled and desperate, Wolf finds out that Jason has abducted his beloved toy chimpanzee, Mr. Funny-Bones.

Field biologists have provided corroborating evidence based on observation of diverse species, such as chickens, sheep, butterflies, and chimpanzee. The habit has been shown to be a physical means of purging intestinal parasites ,.

Sarah is an enculturated research chimpanzee whose cognitive skills are documented in The Mind of an Ape, by David Premack and Ann James Premack ( 1983 ).

The common chimpanzee is both arboreal and terrestrial and spends its nights in the trees, while most daylight hours are spent on the ground.

The common chimpanzee is a ' knuckle walker ', like the gorilla and the bonobo, in contrast to the quadrupedal locomotion of the orangutan, a ' palm walker ' that uses the outside edge of its palms.

These physical characteristics and its posture give the bonobo an appearance more closely resembling that of humans than that of the common chimpanzee.

Another complication in its classification is that it is older than the human – chimpanzee divergence ( estimated to ) seen in genetic data, and that there are few if any specimens other than the partial cranium known as Toumaï.

Even if this claim is upheld, then the find would lose none of its significance, for at present precious few chimpanzee or gorilla ancestors have been found anywhere in Africa.

His brother Harpo offers a different account in his 1961 autobiography, Harpo Speaks !, claiming ( p. 130 ) that there was a popular trained chimpanzee named Mr. Zippo, and that " Herbie " was tagged with the name " Zippo " because he liked to do chinups and acrobatics, as the chimp did in its act.

Critical reaction to the album was mixed ; British music magazine NME called the record " another joyfully old-fashioned rock ' n ' roll album immersed in the classics ," while the American review site Pitchfork Media posted a totally anomalous review containing only a video clip of a chimpanzee urinating in its own mouth.

It moves by knuckle-walking ( like the common chimpanzee, but unlike the bonobo and both orangutan species ), supporting its weight on the backs of its curved fingers rather than its palms.

When this outlived its usefulness ( the kids were often very shy ), a chimpanzee named Corey was brought on stage to hand Summers props and supply primate-related jokes through voiceover acting.

In most respects, it would have resembled a chimpanzee, but its face was closer to that of an orangutan.

While comparing the homologous genes of human SIGLEC11 and its pseudogene in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla and orangutan, it came to know about the event of gene conversion of the sequence of 5 ’ upstream regions and the exons that encodes the sialic acid recognition domain which counts approximately 2kb by the closely flanking hSIGLECP16 pseudogene ( Hayakawa et al., 2005 ).

* The university was home to the signing chimpanzee Washoe from 1980 until her death in October 2007 ; from 1993 at the university's Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.

Citrus Park is the home of famous chimpanzee J. Fred Muggs, who lives in the care of Gerald Preis, son of trainer Carmine " Bud " Mennella.

The Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon movie, about a millionaire who sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home, but ends in hilarious results – also included two of the Marcels, Gene Bricker and Cornelius Harp.

Regenstein Center for African Apes is home to Keo, the oldest male chimpanzee in a North American zoo.

This group is the smallest chimpanzee group in the park and is home to 5, also affectionately known as Nursery Group.

This subspecies is populated at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, in both tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests which are also home to the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, another subspecies of great ape.

The common chimpanzee lives in groups which range in size from 15 to 150 members, although individuals travel and forage in much smaller groups during the day.

With the sequencing of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of the similarity between their DNA sequences range between 95 % and 99 %.

While preliminary genetic testing with non-nuclear DNA indicates a close relationship with the eastern chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii ) subspecies of the common chimpanzee, a range of behaviors that are more closely related to those of gorillas have greatly intrigued primatologists from around the globe.

Chimpanzee skulls are 190 to 210 millimeters long, but four of five Bili ape skulls measured more than 220 millimeters, well beyond the end of the normal chimpanzee range.