Chimpanzees

=Chimpanzees=

There are two kinds of chimpanzees (chimps):
 * common chimps
 * Bonobo chimps

Chimpanzees live together in large groups in rainforests in Africa. They mostly stay high in the trees where they are safe but they also come down onto the ground to catch some prey.
 * Common chimps**

Male common chimps grow up to 1.7 m (5.6 ft) high and weigh as much as 70 kg (150 lb). Females are a bit smaller. It has very long arms which are longer than its legs.

Up in the trees, chimps use their long, strong arms to climb. But on the ground, chimps usually walk on all fours or on the knuckles of their fists, except when they are carrying something with their hands or arms.

Their fur is dark; but they have no hair on the face, fingers, palms of the hands, or soles of the feet. They have no tails.

They have flat noses, and their jaws stick out, especially when they are upset. Large bones over their eyes look like eyebrows.

Chimps grow up to 90 centimetres tall, and can weigh up to 60 kilograms.

Chimps are omnivorous: they eat all kinds of food. They eat bananas and other forest fruits lie berries, and they also eat nuts and insects. They use sticks as tools to poke into termite or ant nests too. But in the dry season when there isn't much fruit around, the males gang up and hunt larger animals like antelopes and baboons! When they catch their prey they bash it on the ground or against branches. They use their strong hands to pull the dead animal to bits. and the males use their huge teeth to help kill the prey.

Source: Wikipedia [] and Dangerous Creatures of the Tropical Rainforests, by Helen Bateman and Jayne Denchire, Macmillan Library, 2005