13 Facts About Common chimpanzee

The Common chimpanzee is covered in coarse black hair, but has a bare face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet.

DNA evidence suggests the bonobo and Common chimpanzee species separated from each other less than one million years ago .

Four subspecies of the Common chimpanzee have been recognised, with the possibility of a fifth:.

The arms of a Common chimpanzee are longer than its legs and can reach below the knees.

In Gombe, the Common chimpanzee mostly uses semideciduous and evergreen forest as well as open woodland.

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The Common chimpanzee has an advanced cognitive map of its home range and can repeatedly find food.

The oldest known male captive Common chimpanzee to have been documented lived to 66 years, and the oldest female, Little Mama, was over 70 years old.

The chimpanzee is host to the louse species Pediculus schaeffi, a close relative of P humanus, which infests human head and body hair.

One Common chimpanzee, Ayumu, was able to correctly and quickly point to the positions where they appeared in ascending order.

Chimpanzee from the Kasakela Common chimpanzee community was the first nonhuman animal reported making a tool, by modifying a twig to use as an instrument for extracting termites from their mound.

An eastern Common chimpanzee has been observed using a modified branch as a tool to capture a squirrel.

One involved a Common chimpanzee jokingly named Nim Chimpsky, trained by Herbert Terrace of Columbia University.

Jane Goodall undertook the first long-term field study of the Common chimpanzee, begun in Tanzania at Gombe Stream National Park in 1960.