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At two years, the young chimpanzees can swing merrily and leap from branch to branch. By the time it is a year old, it learns to hang from branches and play gently with other chimp babies of its age. For several months the baby never leaves its mother, but as it becomes a little more sure of itself, it ventures a few feet away from its mother, then gradually increases the distance under the watchful eye of its mother. However, it quickly develops strength in its hands and feet, so that it can cling firmly to its mother's long hair as she moves about from place to place. When a baby chimpanzee is born, it is almost as helpless as a human baby. Small infants sleep with their mothers until they are about three years old. Holding these down with his feet, he uses his hands to bend all the surrounding leafy twigs to add to his "mattress," and his bed is made.Īfter lying down for a moment, he may sit up and reach for another handful of leaves to pop under his head or some other part of his body for additional comfort. Having found a strong enough branch to hold its weight, with several branches growing out of its sides, the chimpanzee stands on this platform and bends the side branches down so that the leafy ends rest across the platform. It takes a chimpanzee only a few minutes to make its bed. At night, each chimpanzee chooses a suitable place at the top of a tree to make its bed. Sometimes they hunt and kill a young bush-buck or similar animal for meat. The chimpanzees eat fruits, vegetables, birds' eggs, and insects. They are wanderers "nomads", moving about within a certain territory in search of better pastures. The chimpanzees live in small groups, but sometimes several smaller groups join up to form a larger group of some 25 or even 40 apes. There, in the wild, the chimpanzee makes its nest in high trees, though it spends a good deal of time also on the ground. The home of the chimpanzee is in the dense jungles of Africa, especially the rain forests of the Congo and the west coast. The chimp's body is covered with long, shining hair. It is therefore known as a "four-handed" animal. This enables the chimpanzee to use its feet nearly as well as its hands.
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The toes of the feet are also formed like the fingers of the hand, with the big toe facing the other toes like a thumb. Its hands are very much like human hands, except that the thumb is short and the fingers are long. Its main physical characteristics are: a broad and powerful chest, long powerful arms, comparatively short legs.