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	Chimpanzee -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
		Chimps prefer dense tropical rainforests but can also be found in secondary-growth forests, woodlands, bamboo forests, swamps, and even open savannah.
		Young chimps stay with their mothers for up to 10 years.
		Habitat destruction is the greatest threat of the chimpanzee.
	www.kidsplanet.org /factsheets/chimpanzee.html (303 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Chimpanzee
		Chimps are very intelligent and can be trained by humans to perform a variety of tasks.
		Chimps use body language, facial expressions, hand-clapping, grooming, and kissing to communicate within their community.
		Usually a male chimp stays in the community into which he was born, but females transfer to other communities when they become adults.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-chimpanzee.html (762 words)

	Talking With Chimps
		Since we are well aware that a chimp's anatomy renders it virtually impossible to speak a human language, many researchers began to wonder whether it was possible for a chimp to communicate with us in other ways.
		The Kellogg's compared the chimp's development with that of their newborn son with the intention of determining how much of human language is derived from heredity and how much is derived from education.
		The chimp that was used for this experiment was a two week old chimp named Nim Chimpsky (obviously a play on Noam Chomsky) but work with him did not officially begin until he was nine months old.
	www.geocities.com /RainForest/Vines/4451/TalkWithChimps.html (3880 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Family matters
		This week, scientists claimed that chimps are so close to mankind that they should be reclassified as practically human.
		Chimps can solve problems, use tools and when they lose their teeth, even improvise a makeshift food blender.
		That is, chimps and their close relatives, bonobos, would no longer be Pan troglodytes and Pan paniscus, but Homo troglodytes, and Homo paniscus.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,960125,00.html (2012 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Chimps take cooking tips
		This is the first known case of chimps preparing food purely to please their palettes.
		The master chef of the chimp group is Linda, whose teeth were removed by a previous owner to avoid being bitten.
		Chimps at the university zoo are fed whole fruits and vegetables so Linda worked out that she could eat apples by rubbing them over a sharp corner and licking the pulp off the wall.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_884000/884070.stm (410 words)

	Evolution: Library: Chimps And Bonobos
		Although they are close relatives, chimps and bonobos have strikingly different social dynamics: chimps society is prone to violence, and bonobos are relatively peaceful.
		Female chimps lead a life much more solitary than that their bonobo cousins, and are sometimes harassed by the much larger males.
		The chimps have to compete for fruit, and occasionally meat, food resources that tend to be widely scattered.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/l_073_03.html (632 words)

	Are Chimps 98.5% Human? - Does God Exist? - MayJun01
		Chimps have 24 pairs of chromosomes, and humans have 23.
		Chimps do well when tested for their IQ with numbers well into the human intelligence range.
		The right and left halves of chimps are better connected than in humans which ought to be reflected in some way in abilities.
	www.doesgodexist.org /MayJun01/AreChimps98.5Human.html (751 words)

	The Jane Goodall Institute
		Chimps in the wild are on the brink of extinction.
		And, all too often after witnessing the death of their mothers, infant chimpanzees are then captured and sold illegally into the pet trade and for entertainment uses.
		In these sanctuaries, orphan chimps live together in a natural environment in the hands of experienced and loving caregivers.
	www.janegoodall.org /chimp_guardian (372 words)

	CNN.com - Chimps to have retirement home in U.S. - Dec. 26, 2003
		At least 260 of the chimps to be retired at Chimp Haven are the result of a breeding program in the 1980s that produced far more of the primates than researchers needed, Brent said.
		Linda Koebner, Chimp Haven's executive director, led one of the first "chimp rescues" in 1974, when a research lab gave her permission to take 10 of its chimps to live on an island in a Loxahatchee, Florida, preserve.
		Funding for Chimp Haven comes from private donations and from a federal contract after Congress passed the 1991 "Chimp Act," which dedicated up to $30 million to care for chimps that were owned by the federal government or involved in federal research labs.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/science/12/26/chimps.retirement.ap (818 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- Chimps escape, attack visitors at animal sanctuary in Calif.
		BAKERSFIELD – A couple's visit to the chimpanzee they were forced to relinquish to an animal sanctuary turned tragic when two other chimps attacked the husband, critically wounded him before the animals were shot to death in mid-assault.
		Buddy, a 16-year-old male chimp, initiated the attack and after he was shot, Ollie, a 13-year-old male, grabbed the gravely injured man and dragged him down the road, according to Chealander.
		Two other chimps, females named Susie and Bones, also escaped from the cage they shared with Ollie and Buddy, prompting sheriff's deputies, animal control workers, and Fish and Game officials to launch a search.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20050304-0117-ca-chimpanzeeattack.html (727 words)

	Kohler's Work on Insight Learning
		Usually, after a period of unsuccessful jumping, the chimp apparently becomes angry or frustrated, walks away in seeming disgust, pauses, then looks at the food in what might be a more reflective way, then at the toys in the enclosure, then back at the food, and then at the toys again.
		One chimp tried to shinny up a toppling pole it had poised under the bananas; several succeeded by stacking crates underneath, but were hampered by difficulties in getting their centers of gravity right.
		The theme common to each of these attempts is that, to all appearances, the chimps were solving the problem by a kind of cognitive trial and error, as if they were experimenting in their minds before manipulating the tools.
	www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu /psych26/kohler.htm (672 words)

	Chimp Enrichment (Foraging) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The chimps use sticks which they find in the exhibit to dip into the holes and like termites, the mixture adheres to their sticks.
		The chimps tend to be very deliberate and careful when foraging at the termite mound, with the activity lasting the whole day, if enough tubes were filled with food.
		Volunteer observers recorded that over a 5 day period (40 hours of observations) that a chimps were foraging on the mound 67% of the time.
	www.honoluluzoo.org /enrichment_chimps_forage.htm (196 words)

	SaveTheChimps.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The vision of Save the Chimps was -- and remains -- to create a Sanctuary where rescued chimpanzees can live out their lives without the threat of ever returning to a laboratory.
		The Sanctuary environment was carefully designed to nurture and stimulate these sensitive and complex primates by creating a secure and enriching environment, including the construction of a three-acre island on which to safely express natural behaviors without human interference.
		By introducing the chimps to one another and allowing them to form family units, while still in New Mexico awaiting completion of the islands and facilities in Florida, their transition to the Islands in the Sun will be much faster and smoother.
	www.savethechimps.org /about.asp (477 words)

	CNN.com - Report: chimps used simple tools 5 million years ago - May 23, 2002
		The evidence is in the form of 479 fragments of rudimentary stone hammers that the chimps used to crack open nuts at the close of what is known as the Miocene era, when Ice Age conditions cooled the planet, according to their report in this week's journal Science.
		The chimps apparently placed the nuts on a tree root, using it as an "anvil" for the stone hammers.
		An unfortunate footnote to the research is that the modern chimps in Tai National Park are among the last in the nation of Ivory Coast.
	www.cnn.com /2002/TECH/science/05/23/chimps.tools/index.html (355 words)

	The King of Chimp Exploitation - Fredrick Coulston
		The charges include substandard housing — the USDA says at least 27 chimps were being kept in cages not much bigger than a bathroom stall — and lapses in care that led to the deaths of several animals.
		According to the USDA, three chimps at the NMSU facilities died a horrible death in the fall of 1993 after a portable heater malfunctioned and sent the temperature in their quarters soaring to 140 degrees.
		In addition, researchers have discovered in the past few years that the chimp is not the model for AIDS they had hoped it would be, which means there is now a chimp surplus — just as federal funds for chimp research are shrinking.
	www.geocities.com /willc7/CoulstonUSNews.html (1747 words)

	CreationEvolutionDesign
		To test how altruistic chimps are, Silk and her colleagues studied the behaviour of two separate groups of chimps in captivity.
		They devised an experiment in which chimps on one side of a window could pull a handle to provide a tray of food for themselves or to also give the same reward to a monkey in another room on the opposite side of the window.
		When the chimp pulled a handle, one of the trays moved toward him and the other tray moved toward another chimp in a room on the opposite side of the window.
	creationevolutiondesign.blogspot.com (15868 words)

	Chimps Belong on Human Branch of Family Tree, Study Says
		Historical classification schemes, based on physical similarities such as bones, argued that chimps and gorillas were each other's closest relatives, and that both were closely related to orangutans to the exclusion of humans.
		Studies indicate that humans and chimps are between 95 and 98.5 percent genetically identical.
		Goodman and colleagues used computer methods to analyze the amount of similarity between 97 important human and chimp genes and as many of the same gene sequences as are currently available for less-studied gorillas, orangutans, and Old World monkeys.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/05/0520_030520_chimpanzees.html (890 words)

	Web Resources on Chimpanzees
		Chimps live in areas with evergreen, fruit producing trees, humid forest, deciduous woodland or mixed savannah, and can be found in west and central Africa.
		The Chimpanzee, more commonly called the chimp, is ranked as one of the most intelligent primates in the world and resembles man more than any other ape.
		Chimps can spend up to seven hours a day feeding, eating fruit, leaves and roots, and occasionally meat, such as small monkeys.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/chimps.htm (543 words)

	SAVE RAINFOREST AND FEED CHIMPS FOR FREE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the saddest 'trophies' the Charlies brought were the chimps, young and immature they were clearly distraught at being taken from the family group.
		When the chimps were released from their chains, they held their small arms out to you pleading to be held and comforted.
		Those small frightened pathetic baby chimps, snatched away from the family group, bewildered, hungry and just needing to be hugged.
	www.redjellyfish.com /free-donations.html (965 words)

	Chimps Shown Using Not Just a Tool but a "Tool Kit" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For example, chimps in the Taï rain forest, in West Africa's Côte d'Ivoire, use stone "hammers" to crack open nuts.
		For subterranean nests the chimps use their feet to force a larger "puncturing stick" into the earth, drilling holes into termite chambers, and then a separate fishing probe to harvest the insects.
		Often the chimps modified the fishing probe, pulling it through their teeth to fray the end like a paintbrush.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2004/10/1006_041006_chimps.html (610 words)

	chimps
		There seem to be "cultural" differences between groups of chimpanzees in the variety of food taken and the techniques for processing it.
		Chimps live in small, stable groups (called communities or unit groups) of about 40-60 chimps.
		The remaining chimp populations are mostly living in leftover forests, game reserves and national parks.
	www.iearn.org.au /greatapes/chimps.htm (833 words)

	NIH Press Release-NHGRI Researchers Use DNA Chip to Sequence Breast Cancer Gene - 01/26/1998
		Chimp and human DNA are believed to differ in only about 1.5% of their sequences.
		Identification and study of the small genetic variations between the two species could help explain why chimps and people are so different--why, for example, the human brain is so much larger, and possesses more complicated mental capacities.
		"You can think of a chimp as a collection of sequence changes relative to humans, so if it worked for finding disease-causing mutations it ought to work pretty well at finding sequence differences between humans and other primates, as long as there are not too many of them," Dr. Collins said.
	www.nih.gov /news/pr/jan98/nhgri-26.htm (777 words)

	CBBC Newsround \| Animals \| Zoo tries to stop chimps smoking
		It's thought a chimp called Charlie picked up the harmful habit after growing up in a US circus and copying visitors who tossed him cigarettes.
		A Bloemfontein Zoo spokesman said the chimps were damaging their lungs.
		The chimps don't realize smoking is bad for them, so the zoo are asking guests to stop throwing them cigarettes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4470000/newsid_4474200/4474209.stm (106 words)

	Adopt-a-Chimp - Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Retired from laboratory research in 1997, the chimps who call our sanctuary home have been given the chance to live and relax in peace.
		No longer confined to tiny cages or subjected to invasive experiments, the chimps now delight in the simple pleasures of life: sunshine and fresh air on their faces, room to play and rest, plenty of special treats to eat, and new things to discover.
		Since the chimps will spend the remainder of their lives at our sanctuary, purchasing an adoption package or making a donation is a wonderful way you can give back to these special individuals who have given so much to all of us.
	www.adopt-a-chimp.com (147 words)

	Eating Apes: CHAPTER ONE
		Whenever the chimps we followed came to small groves of ripe nut trees, they stopped to gather handfuls of fallen nuts from the ground, walked and carried them in their hands, and then sat or squatted down in front of their hardwood tools.
		You are on one side of the bars, the chimps and bonobos on the other side, simply because those apes lack a little more than 1 percent of the requisite genes to be treated like humans.
		And if you linger to gaze at gorillas in the same zoo, remember that they are sitting on the other side of the bars or the moat not because they have done anything wrong, but simply and solely because they happen to be missing just slightly more than 2 percent of the human genome.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/9403/9403.ch01.html (5449 words)

	The Family of Chimps
		The "Family of Chimps" is used in the course Behavioural Biology of the Dutch Open University
		I had left the Netherlands before it was made and watched it the first time with tears in my eyes because of the loving attention with which all of my old friends are depicted.
		"The Family of Chimps" gives much more than a survey of the behaviour of this ape-species, related closest to man. It helps the audience to observe and in doing so to obtain insight in the way chimps solve their daily problems.
	chimpansee.homestead.com /Film.html (849 words)

	Realbeer.com: Beer News: Drunken chimps threaten humans
		The officials point out that a chimp cannot take on a grown man. All the babies they have attacked have been either unaccompanied, or are in in the company of other children.
		This is probably due to food scarcity prevailing in the main chimp habitat during this period, which forces them to move beyond the park boundary in search of food.
		Once the chimps come across a sugarcane plantation, for example, they tend to abandon the park and, as a result, come into conflict with the local communities," says the report.
	www.realbeer.com /news/articles/news-002133.php (372 words)

	Science News: Chimps Employ Culture to Branch Out - research on chimpanzee culture - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Other than humans, only chimps show a documented penchant for passing on styles of tool use, grooming, and other behaviors through teaching and imitation, contends a group of researchers led by Andrew Whiten of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
		Chimps' cultural traditions included cracking nuts by using pieces of wood as hammer and anvil, sucking ants off sticks, clasping a comrade's arms overhead, and slapping tree branches to get attention.
		In a noncultural example of mental sophistication, de Waal and Emory coworker Lisa A. Parr report that chimps recognize facial similarities between unfamiliar chimp mothers and their sons, but not between chimp mothers and their daughters.
	www.findarticles.com /m1200/25_155/55067731/p1/article.jhtml (576 words)

	Chimpanzees: Animal Information, Pictures, Map--National Geographic Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Suddenly, the silence is broken as the chimps begin drumming on tree trunks and sending out a loud chorus of pant-hoots and food calls (a mix of grunts and barks) to other members of their community, some as far as two miles (three kilometers) away!
		For the first few months of its life a baby chimp clings to the hair of its mother’s belly as she travels with it everywhere.
		The chimp sticks the grass into the entrance of a termite nest, wiggles it around, then slowly withdraws it—without losing any tasty termites clinging to the grass stem.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /kids/creature_feature/0112/chimps2.html (376 words)

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