About Chimpanzees
Chimpanzees are one of four great apes. In addition to the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla), bonobos (Pan paniscus) and the orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) all belong to the great apes.
However, chimpanzees are our closest relatives. Only 1.6% of our genetic material, the so called DNA, differs between us and our chimpanzee cousins. Five million years ago, the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived and died somewhere in Africa, and so we share the same inheritance with the chimpanzees.
- How do chimpanzees live?
- How do chimpanzees grow up?
- What do chimpanzees eat?
- Whom do chimpanzees like?
- Chimpanzees in danger
