Chimpanzees Research Paper

Chimpanzee’s Life In The Wild

Chimpanzees are located only in East Africa. They live in the Congo jungle, Tanzania and Uganda. They usually stay in the rainforest. Chimps have a lot of monkey business going on in the wild and it bring us to our attention. Even in East Africa chimps come in contact with a lot of diseases from living in Africa. Some monkeys carry Ebola, Herpes B, Monkeypox and SIV virus.
Chimpanzees can pick up germs just like humans, usually from the air or from touching infected items. Monkeypox is a virus that African rodents carry, such as squirrels, mice and porcupines. This virus gives you a rash and bumps all over your body. Monkeys get Ebola from being around the humans in Africa. Humans get it from eating bushmeat.
Chimpanzees and humans both share a DNA of 98.8%. They have a shorter lifespan than humans. In Africa, humans have an average lifespan of 50 while, chimps, also, have a lifespan of 50. Chimps and humans have similar traits that humans do. Chimpanzees arms are longer than its legs. The male chimpanzees stand about 3 to 4 feet tall and weighs between 90 and 115 pounds. Female chimpanzees stands about 2 to 3 and a half feet tall and weighs up between 57 and 110 pounds. The size of the chimpanzee's brain is about 282-500 cc. It is a lot smaller than the human brain which is about 1330 cc. Like humans, chimpanzees also hit puberty around eight to ten years old, same as humans, although some humans may hit puberty later in life. Chimpanzees are known to be stronger than human beings and are able to pull the same weight as a human being.
Chimpanzees live in groups of ten or more. Being in a group helps them protect each other from predators. As they live in their own groups, chimps do not like it when other groups invade their space and will cause territorial fights. They show really bad behavior when they come into each others territory. Chimpanzee are omnivores which means that they eat plants. Throughout the day, living in the forest, they eat plants, fruit, tree bark, seeds, or flowers. Sometimes they eat insects, such as termites. They drink plenty of water and also eat or chew leaves as a sponge to suck
They also use their teeth to make sticks sharper and use it as a spear. Humans believed that they were the only ones able to use tools, but have since discovered that chimps can too. Nesting-building is sometimes considered as a tool, it’s when the chimps make beds out of sticks and they are laced together to make a safe, comfortable place to sleep, infants learn this by watching their parents.
Chimps were used as test dummies more than 10,000 were caught in the wild for the circus, zoo or animal trainers. They are used also to test drugs, or medicines, or for toxicology testing. Some states banned that because some people didn’t believe it was right for animals to get hurt or killed for no reason. They also believe that the infinites should not get separated from their mothers that young. More than 10 thousand are killed each year by humans testing them. In 2013 testing animals were banned. While Chimps may live in the jungle, and carry diseases, they are just like us as they are caring and loving, as human beings can be. They are smart and have the ability to learn like people. While chimpanzees are wild, they are caring toward each other and act like