It shares familiar human characteristics, such as problem-solving abilities, a high degree of parental care, and a variety of facial expressions. Chimpanzees live in troops numbering between 25 and 80. Each troop has a dominant male. The troop s home range varies in size from seven to eight square miles in forest to 40 to 75 in open country. Active by day, the chimpanzee sleeps at night in a nest that it makes in a tree, well above the ground, safe from its predators.
Chimps stay mainly in trees during the wet season and on the ground when it is dry.
The chimp has two intensive feeding periods every day, early in the morning and late in the afternoon. Fruits of all kinds make up the majority of the chimpanzee s diet. It will also eat insects and honey. It gets most of the water it needs from fruit. Breeding takes place year round.