Thursday, August 26, 2010

Chimpanzee

Chimpanzees are members of the hominidae family, along with gorillas, humans and orangutants. Chimpanzees split from human evolution about six million years ago and the two chimpanzees are the closest living  relatives to human.The common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus pan. The two pan species split only about one million years ago.
The male common chimp is upto 5.6 ft hight while standing and weighs as much as 70 kg. The female is some what smaller. They use their long, powerful arms for climbing in trees. On the ground chimp usually walk on all fours using their knuckles for support with their hands clenched. Their coat is dark, the face finger, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet are hairless, and the chimp has no tail. The brain of the chimpanzee is about half the size of the human brain. They eat all sorts of vegeterian foods as well as animals, the list of food item is long: fruits, nuts, leaves, plants, mushrooms, flowers, insects, meat and more.

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