This also varies from troop to troop and year to year. Other mammalian prey include red-tailed monkeys, infant and juvenile yellow baboons, bush babies, blue duikers, bushbucks, and common warthogs.ĭespite the fact that chimpanzees are known to hunt, and to collect insects and other invertebrates, such food actually makes up a very small portion of their diet, from as little as 2% yearly to as much as 65 grams of animal flesh per day for each adult chimpanzee in peak hunting seasons. The western red colobus ranks at the top of preferred mammal prey. Insect species consumed include the weaver ant Oecophylla longinoda, Macrotermes termites and honey bees. While the chimpanzee is mostly herbivorous, it does eat honey, soil, insects, birds and their eggs, and small to medium-sized mammals, including other primates. In addition, 19% of feeding time was spent on arboreal leaves, mostly Broussonetia papyrifera and Celtis mildbraedii. A study in Budongo Forest, Uganda found that 64.5% of chimp feeding time concentrated on fruits (84.6% of which being ripe), particularly those from two species of Ficus, Maesopsis eminii and Celtis durandii. It prefers fruit above all other food items but also eats leaves and leaf buds, seeds, blossoms, stems, pith, bark and resin. The chimpanzee is an omnivorous frugivore. Chimpanzees sleep alone in separate nests except for infants or juvenile chimpanzees, which sleep with their mothers. The chimpanzee builds a sleeping nest in a tree in a different location each night, never using the same nest more than once. The chimpanzee has an advanced cognitive map of its home range and can repeatedly find food. At Taï, it is found in the last remaining tropical rain forest in Ivory Coast. At Bossou, the chimpanzee inhabits multistage secondary deciduous forest, which has grown after shifting cultivation, as well as primary forest and grassland. In Gombe, the chimpanzee mostly uses semideciduous and evergreen forest as well as open woodland. It lives in a variety of habitats, including dry savanna, evergreen rainforest, montane forest, swamp forest and dry woodland-savanna mosaic. The chimpanzee is a highly adaptable species. According to Japan's Asahiyama Zoo, the grip strength of an adult chimpanzee is estimated to be 200 kg (441 lb), while other sources claim figures of up to 330 kg (727 lb). The physical strength of chimps is around 1.5 times greater than humans due to higher content of fast twitch muscle fibres, one of the chimpanzee's adaptations for climbing and swinging. As with bonobos and gorillas, chimpanzees move quadrupedally by knuckle-walking, which probably evolved independently in Pan and Gorilla. On the ground chimpanzees move both quadrupedally and bipedally, which appear to have similar energy costs. Arboreal locomotion consists of vertical climbing and brachiation.
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The skin may range from pale to dark, and females develop swelling pink skin when in oestrus.Ĭhimpanzees are adapted for both arboreal and terrestrial locomotion. As they get older, white or grey patches may appear, particularly on the chin and lower region. The hair of a chimpanzee is typically black but can be brown or ginger. Chimpanzees lose more hair as they age, and develop bald spots. Chimpanzees lack the prominent sagittal crest and associated head and neck musculature of gorillas.Ĭhimpanzee bodies are covered by coarse hair, except for the face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. It has forward-facing eyes, a small nose, rounded non-lobed ears, a long mobile upper lip and, in adult males, sharp canine teeth. A chimpanzee's head is rounded with a prominent and prognathous face and a pronounced brow ridge. The pelvis is long with an extended ilium.
The feet are adapted for grasping, the big toe being opposable. The hands have long fingers with short thumbs and flat fingernails. The arms of a chimpanzee are longer than its legs, and can reach below the knees. The chimpanzee is more robustly built than the bonobo but less than the gorilla. In exceptional cases, certain individuals may considerably exceed these measurements, standing over 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) on two legs and weighing up to 136 kg (300 lb) in captivity.
Wild adult males weigh between 40 and 70 kg (88 and 154 lb) with females weighing between 27 and 50 kg (60 and 110 lb). The chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes), often shortened to simply "chimp" is an arboreal hominid.Īdult chimpanzees have an average standing height of 150 cm (4 ft 11 in).
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