{"id":298,"date":"2009-05-04T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T23:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?page_id=298"},"modified":"2009-05-04T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T23:24:23","slug":"chimpanzees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?page_id=298","title":{"rendered":"Chimpanzees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chimpanzees live in Africa but they are found in zoos, photos and films all over the world.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-299\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"mum and baby chimpanzee in Uganda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/chimp-and-baby_close.jpg\" alt=\"mum and baby chimpanzee in Uganda\" width=\"268\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/chimp-and-baby_close.jpg 298w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/chimp-and-baby_close-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have black hair and pinkish to black\u00a0 bare skin on their faces (except for hairs on their chin),\u00a0 ears, palms of their hands and soles of their feet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chimpanzees walk on all fours on the ground and in the trees.\u00a0 They use their knuckles for support while walking on all fours and are called \u201cknuckle walkers\u201d.<\/li>\n<li> Chimpanzees have long arms and use these to reach out for fruit and food on trees.\u00a0 They swing through branches too. and are very strong<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chimps have apposable thumbs.\u00a0 Chimpanzee males are slightly heavier than females.\u00a0 Chimpanzees\u00a0 in the wild seldom live longer than 50 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Although it is difficult to detrmine chimpanzee emotions, those who have worked closely with chimpanzees agree that they feel and express emotions such as;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>sadness and happiness,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>fear and despair &#8211; and they know mental as well as physical pain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There are uncanny similarities in the nonverbal communication patterns of chimps and humans \u2013kissing, embracing, patting on the back, touching hands, tickling, shaking the first, brandishing sticks, hurling rocks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>these patterns appear in similar contexts as those in which they are seen in humans. They mean much the same.<br \/>\n<strong>Friendships and socialising<\/strong><br \/>\nFriendly physical contact is crucial in maintaining good relationships among chimpanzees. For this reason, social grooming is probably the most important social behavior, serving to sustain or improve friendships within the community and to calm nervous or tense individuals. The grin of fear seen in frightened chimpanzees may be similar to the nervous smiles given by humans when tense or in stressful situations. When angry, chimpanzees may stand upright, show off, wave their arms, throw branches or rocks &#8211; all with bristling hair and often while screaming or with lips bunched in ferocious scowls.<br \/>\nMale chimpanzees proclaim their dominance with spectacular charging displays during which they slap their hands, stamp with their feet, drag branches as they run, or hurl rocks. In doing so, they make themselves look as big and dangerous as they possibly can, and indeed may eventually intimidate a higher-ranking individual without having to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chimpanzees live in Africa but they are found in zoos, photos and films all over the world. They have black hair and pinkish to black\u00a0 bare skin on their faces (except for hairs on their chin),\u00a0 ears, palms of their hands and soles of their feet. Chimpanzees walk on all fours on the ground and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/298\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}