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//__**Chimpanzee**__// //__**Iyanna.N.Lowe**__// Have you ever thought about the fact that the chimpanzee can be smarter than a human? If you thought not think again! A chimpanzee uses the tools around it for important reasons. For instance a chimpanzee chews up leaves and puts it in for say a hollow in a tree, the leaf acts like a sponge and soaks the up the water. The chimpanzee drinks the water from the leaf sponge and the chimpanzee plucks long grass or tears twigs to stick down o termite nest. Chimpanzees eat the termites off of the twig. The ape drinks from water sources like small puddles and lakes and at a chance they might drink from a pond. Sometimes they just snack on little berries, leaf buds, insects, bird eggs, fruit, and seeds. When chimps find a monkey, which is almost never, they hunt it down and eat the monkey and some people say they are herbivores(animals that eat only plants) but they are actually omnivores(animals that eat both plants and other animals.    This proud primates body is covered with brown or black hair. Their bare body parts such as their face, hands, feet, and toes are covered with pinkish to black skin. These noisy and noble apes are about how tall a third grader is (3 to 4 ¼ FT.) Do you think that a creature that looks so light and small like the chimpanzee would be able to lift 100 to 175 lbs. of its own weight? It can, chimpanzees lift their own weight that's 100 to 175 lbs. each day to get food in the high trees. Chimpanzees have opposable thumbs and big toes just like us. Their hands and feet look just like ours. The apes arms are larger than the apes legs the reason that is, is because they need long arms for climbing. Lets act like the males (men) are the arms and the females (woman) are the legs. Were you paying attention the fact is that the males (men) are larger than the females. (woman) Our friend here talks a lot to his friends and family. A chimp hoots and hollers when when he finds a large food supply such as green figs and big termite nests. Some people might think that chimpanzees always have the same facial expression (look on his face) all the time but if you remembered what I said (man and chimpanzees share 98% of our genes) then there's your answer man and chimps share genes so why shouldn't chips share their expressions like humans. Apes stay in groups and make noises when traveling to keep together so not one chimp will get lost. Chimp also show when they're scared or exited when he shows his gums and teeth. Like all other animals these noble animals have a class, order, and family. Their class is mammals. Their order is primates. And their family is the Great Apes. Chimps are the closest living thing to humans. There are 4 subspecies of chimps the, masked or western, central or black faced, eastern or long haired and eastern nigeria. Another word for chimpanzee is //__Pan troglodyte__// Chimps have live young. They live in groups of about 15 to 120 chimpanzees. Bigger groups attack smaller groups to get there land. Smaller chimpanzees learn to do things by imitating older chimps. Baby chimps hang on to moms stomach fur and when they get older they get on her back. The older sibling chimps help the little ones get over the grief of losing a parent. Chimpanzees live in very leafy places like western and central Africa. People might think that africa is very dry and there's hardly ever any green trees but its not like that. Africa has a lot of trees. One reason that is, is because apes can't live without trees, why do you think apes arms are larger than their legs. For climbing. Some apes even live in Montane Forest. Apes aren't only found in Montane forest. They can be found in savannas or forests they can even live in drier places. Now this isn't the only place that their found but this is specific: Gombe National park east Africa Tanzania. Humans really interact with chimps. Humans destroy their habitat By chopping down the trees just for their own goods. Sometimes humans really need to think about their actions and other creatures before they do things. Another threat to chimps are that humans hunt them for food and their fur I don't get why they do that I mean like humans wouldn't like it if we killed them for their meat and hair so why do they do it to chimpanzees. The last threat is people pollute the air and I bet that is a scarce but painful death.  Works Cited Berger, Melvin, and Gilda Berger. //Dogs Bring Newspapers But Cats Bring Mice// . New York: Scholasic inc., 2004. Print.

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