AOL: NASCAR legend's face ripped off by chimps while celebrating birthday of pet chimpanzee 'son'
NASCAR legend's face ripped off by chimps while celebrating birthday of pet chimpanzee 'son'
MSN: Sports star has face ripped off by chimp at birthday party for pet chimpanzee 'son'
Sports star has face ripped off by chimp at birthday party for pet chimpanzee 'son'
Like us, chimps are highly social animals, care for their offspring for years and can live to be over 50. In fact, chimpanzees are our closest cousins; we share about 98% of our genes. In their habitat in the forests of Central Africa, chimpanzees spend most of their days in the treetops.
There is no hair on a chimpanzee’s face, hands, or feet, but the rest of its body is covered with either long black or brown hair. Unlike other primates such as monkeys and baboons, chimps and other apes don’t have a tail.
The chimpanzee (/ ˌtʃɪmpænˈziː /; Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is an endangered species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one.
chimpanzee, (Pan troglodytes), species of ape that, along with the bonobo, is most closely related to humans. Chimpanzees inhabit tropical forests and savannas of equatorial Africa from Senegal in the west to Lake Albert and northwestern Tanzania in the east.
Chimpanzee The chimpanzee, or Pan troglodytes, is our closest living relative alongside the bonobo. As members of the Hominidae family, humans and chimps split from a common ancestor roughly 6 to 7 million years ago and still share about 98.8% of their DNA. That evolutionary closeness has made chimpanzees a primary subject of research in primate cognition, social behavior, and human evolution ...