Chimps

Aw, just look at those eyes!

so so sweet!
Just makes me smile!

Look what Disney Nature has coming out in April!
We will definitely be going!

• Chimpanzees are the most social of all the apes living in communities of between 15 and 120 individuals.
• Their communities are often split into a number of subgroups with a male as the leader of the group.
• Males seldom leave the community where they were born.
• Females often migrate to a new community during an adolescent estrus period.
• Chimpanzees travel mostly on the ground (terrestrial) by knuckle walking.
• Chimpanzees groom each other daily, and this activity has an important social function of calming and comforting individuals and solidifying bonds with each other.
• Mothers often travel alone with their offspring.
• They construct nests at night in which to sleep.
• Chimpanzee males in the wild cooperative hunt for meat.
• Their diet is mainly fruits with regular amounts of insects, as well as birds and small mammals.
• Chimpanzees use tools to gain access to food, such as fishing for termites with sticks fashioned for the job and cracking open nuts with anvil-like rocks.
• Females in estrus have a prominent swelling of the pink perineal skin, lasting two to three weeks and occurring every four to six weeks.
• Females give birth every 4 to 5 years and their gestation period is 8 to 9 months.
• Chimpanzees have a long mother-infant dependency period where infants will nurse on their mothers for 5 years and stay with their mothers several more years learning to care for younger siblings.
• The life span for chimpanzees is 40 to 50 years in the wild and over 50 to 60 years in captivity.

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