### animal | vertebrate | mammal | primate | ape:

Chimp
* All chimps have distinctive markings on their face and body , just as humans do.
* Many chimps carry objects in the groin pocket.
* Most chimps are classified as omnivores
  - treated with oral medication when needed
* Most chimps eat bananas
  - certain plants
  - enter puberty
* Most chimps have mates
  - recede chins
  - live in Africa, usually in the woodlands and thick rain forest
  - reach maturity
  - use teeth
  - used in entertainment have their front teeth pulled to prevent biting
  - weigh pounds
* Some chimps attain puberty
  - develop behaviour
* Some chimps eat mammal meat
* Some chimps have white hair on the snout from birth and others gray around the mouth with age
  - years
  - kill chimps
* also carry rocks around, which they use to crack open nuts
  - drop branches on intruders and sop up drinking water with leaves
* are as distinct from one another as humans.
* are both arboreal and terrestrial, spending much of their daytime hours on the ground
  - smallwe and stronger than humans
  - by comparison slow and ponderous in trees
  - capable of use computers
  - endangered
  - intelligent animals with generally pleasant personalities
  - led by an alpha male and occasionally kill each other
  - more like humans than like monkeys
  - omnivores, meaning they eat both meat and plants, though mostly plants
  - our closest living relative in terms of the evolution theory
  - promiscuous, and gorillas are polygynous
  - seen gently touching the body, smelling, and observing
  - strong, and they can bite
  - victims of the virus, just as humans are
* avoid water at all costs and are usually unable to swim, unless extremely excited.
* can also get respiratory infections such as the common cold or the flu
  - distinguish relatives from unrelated chimps
  - live well into their fifties
  - prefer one type of music to another, and show preferences to foods and feel pain
  - see black and white at night and they can see all colors in the afternoon
* communicate with a wide range of calls, postures and gestures.
* develop slowly and begin their adolescence approximately at the age of nine.
* dig holes to sleep in.
* do tend to be less fearful of women than of men.
* dose themselves with medicinal plants when they are sick.
* drink water.
* eat antelopes and small baboons
  - the small monkeys they capture
* exhibit intergroup violence, killing the males of nearby groups and taking over the females
  - very promiscuous behavior
* gather food.
* generally differ from gorillas several ways
  - utilize their signs in discussing aspects of family life
* have a little bald spot at the top of their head right by their forehead
  - lot in common with humans
  - advantage
  - areas
  - big, big eyes
  - close family ties
  - distinct and highly individual personalities
  - huge advantage
  - long childhoods and are dependent on their mother's care for five years
  - no hair on the palms of their hands, feet or on their faces
  - one third, and gorillas one half, human brainsize
  - shorter thumbs and much more hair
  - the largest geographic range of any ape, living in jungles across central Africa
* hunt bushbabies
  - senegal bushbabies
* includes brains
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - piluses
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sterna
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
* lack a tail.
* lead life.
* lift heads.
  - an environment where resources are relatively abundant
  - forest, woodland and savanna habitats in family groups that are predominantly female
  - large groups and depend on individualized faces to recognized each other
* make beds or nests, always newly constructed
  - decisions
  - tools, hunt cooperatively and in the wild they travel through vast territories
* occasionally hunt and eat meat.
* often forage in groups and can hunt co-operatively for monkeys and young antelope
  - turn on their own, particularly infants and young adults
* operate in the world of concrete, tangible things that can be seen.
* possess longer arms than legs and have both opposable thumbs and big toes.
* seem to be found only in warm weather conditions, whereas our species pops up everywhere
  - get most of their water from the fruit they eat
* shake heads.
* show memory
  - skills
* stay mainly in trees during the wet season and on the ground when it is dry.
* supplement their diets with meat, such as young antelopes or goats.
* take first steps
* use leaves to drink water
  - plants medicinally
  - rocks to smash open food and put leaves on their feet to walk over thorns
  - their faces and wolves use their scents to communicate
* weigh about two thirds of what the average human weighs