One thousand are being killed yearly- only about 15,000 remain. In Indonesia loggers have destroyed national park headquarters and threatened scientists. 138 world primate species are in immediate danger of extinction. The obliteration and annihilation looks inevitable without immediate intervention. They are intelligent and exhibit feelings and emotions like we do.
Chimpanzees live in social groups called communities.
Chimps communicate with a wide range of calls, postures and gestures. In captivity they have made tools to probe into narrow openings for hidden food and to gain leverage and in many cases escape their enclosures. Unless drastic measures are taken, orangutans will be extinct in the wild within 20 years. Koko , a gorilla, has a working vocabulary of over 500 signs and has emitted over 400 more. Koko understands approximately 2,000 words of spoken English.