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Little Rock, AR Zoo (2012)
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, sharing more than 98 percent of our genetic blueprint. Humans and chimps are also thought to share a common ancestor who lived some four to eight million years ago.
Chimpanzees live in social communities of several dozen animals, and can habituate themselves to African rain forests, woodlands, and grasslands.
Although they normally walk on all fours (knuckle-walking), chimpanzees can stand and walk upright. By swinging from branch to branch they can also move quite efficiently in the trees, where they do most of their eating. Chimpanzees usually sleep in the trees as well, employing nests of leaves.
Chimps are generally fruit and plant eaters, but they also consume insects, eggs, and meat, including carrion. They have a tremendously varied diet that includes hundreds of known foods.
Chimpanzees are one of the few animal species that employ tools. They shape and use sticks to retrieve insects from their nests or dig grubs out of logs. They also use stones to smash open tasty nuts and employ leaves as sponges to soak up drinking water. Chimpanzees can even be taught to use some basic human sign language.
Females can give birth at any time of year, typically to a single infant that clings to its mother's fur and later rides on her back until the age of two. Females reach reproductive age at 13, while males are not considered adults until they are 16 years old.
Although chimps and humans are closely related, the apes have suffered much at human hands. These great apes are endangered and still threatened by bushmeat hunters and habitat destruction.
Fast Facts
Type:MammalDiet:OmnivoreAverage life span in the wild:45 yearsSize:4 to 5.5 ft (1.2 to 1.7 m)Weight:70 to 130 lbs (32 to 60 kg)Group name:CommunityProtection status:EndangeredSize relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man:
2024 BLM Fire Employee Photo Contest Category - The Land We Protect
Photo taken from Marysvale near the dozer staging area on the west side of town on July 26, 2024. Equipment operators and fire crews were securing line to protect the community of Marysvale, Utah, and the surrounding area. Photo by Martin Esplin, BLM.
Little Rock, AR Zoo (2012)
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, sharing more than 98 percent of our genetic blueprint. Humans and chimps are also thought to share a common ancestor who lived some four to eight million years ago.
Chimpanzees live in social communities of several dozen animals, and can habituate themselves to African rain forests, woodlands, and grasslands.
Although they normally walk on all fours (knuckle-walking), chimpanzees can stand and walk upright. By swinging from branch to branch they can also move quite efficiently in the trees, where they do most of their eating. Chimpanzees usually sleep in the trees as well, employing nests of leaves.
Chimps are generally fruit and plant eaters, but they also consume insects, eggs, and meat, including carrion. They have a tremendously varied diet that includes hundreds of known foods.
Chimpanzees are one of the few animal species that employ tools. They shape and use sticks to retrieve insects from their nests or dig grubs out of logs. They also use stones to smash open tasty nuts and employ leaves as sponges to soak up drinking water. Chimpanzees can even be taught to use some basic human sign language.
Females can give birth at any time of year, typically to a single infant that clings to its mother's fur and later rides on her back until the age of two. Females reach reproductive age at 13, while males are not considered adults until they are 16 years old.
Although chimps and humans are closely related, the apes have suffered much at human hands. These great apes are endangered and still threatened by bushmeat hunters and habitat destruction.
Fast Facts
Type:MammalDiet:OmnivoreAverage life span in the wild:45 yearsSize:4 to 5.5 ft (1.2 to 1.7 m)Weight:70 to 130 lbs (32 to 60 kg)Group name:CommunityProtection status:EndangeredSize relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man:
Visit to the community of Ketemo in the Central African Republic where the SECC project recently installed a high frequency (HF) radio. September 19, 2014.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), in partnership with Search for Common Ground (SFCG), Caritas Bangassou, and the Episcopal Justice and Peace Commissions of Bossangoa and Bouar, with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is implementing a three-year program (2012-2015) entitled Secured, Empowered, Connected Communities (SECC). The program seeks to empower targeted communities in the Central African Republic (CAR) as well as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to avoid or reduce their exposure to threats associated with the presence of armed groups and ongoing conflict. The program also aims to deliver custom-tailored capacity strengthening and conflict-sensitive program activities to improve intra- and inter-communal social cohesion and engage target communities to develop and implement more effective community-led, owned, and managed protection and social cohesion plans.