1. Chimpanzees

2. About The common chimpanze is a type of ape.
Chimpanzees are intelligent and can create and use simple tools.
They kive in a hierarchical society and communicate through facial expressions, gestures, and a range of howls, hoots, and screeches.
Chimpanzees cann measure up to 5’3” while standing and weigh up to 150 lb. They are larger than monkeys and smaller than gorillas.
Source: the Jane Goodall Institute
Baby Chimp (Not captive), by David Schenfeld

3. Habitat and Range
Wild chimpanzees are found in Western and Central Africa.
Chimpanzees live in a variety of habitats, including rainforests, evergreen forests, and the savanna.
Chimpanzees travel in troops of Although they may roam around a small area, they build sleeping nests in a new location every night.
A chimpanzee hunts in a deciduous forest habitat in Gombe Stream National Park, Kenya.
Photo: User Ikiwaner, Wikimedia Commons

4. Population
Chimpanzees are endangered. There are only 170, ,000 chimpanzees alive today.
Wild chimpanzees are distributed unevenly across their range.
Central Chimpanzees live in Gabon, Cameroon, and Congo.
Western Chimpanzees live mainly in Cote D’Ivoire.
Eastern Chimpanzees live in the DRC, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.
Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees live north of the Sanaga river in Nigeria and Cameroon.
About 1,450 captive chimpanzees live in zoos and labs in the United States.
Sources: World Wildlife Fund and the IUCN Species Survival Commission

5. Diet
Chimpanzees are omnivorous frugivores, which means they can eat both plants and meat, but prefer fruit over every other type of food.
Figs are their favorite fruit, but chimpanzees have been known to eat over 100 species of plant.
Chimpanzees will occasionally hunt animals, including other primates.
Some chimpanzees are skilled at using simple tools to capture and eat insects like ants and termites.
Sources: Scientific American and Forest Ecology and Management

6. Life Cycle
Sources: The Center for Great Apes, the World Wildlife Fund, and In the Shadow of Man, by Jane Goodall