Chimpanzee
Chimpanzees are, along with bonobos, our closest living relatives.
They live in complex communities in forests and woodland in about 20 African countries, but their numbers are declining over most of their range. They are thought to have become extinct recently in Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin.
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EndangeredSpecies Info
- 1925
Study by Köhler concludes that "Chimpanzees manifest intelligent behaviour of the general kind familiar in human beings" - 1960
Jane Goodall observes the use of tools amongst Chimpanzees - 1961
Ham the Astrochimp launched into outer space - 1973
Research finds 99% identical DNA between humans & chimpanzees - 2005
Chimpanzee Genome sequenced
