Chimpanzee

Chimpanzees are about 3 to 5 feet tall and weigh from 99 to 176 pounds. we have black hair. Adults are very often bald, usually a triangle on the forehead of the male, and more complete baldness in females. we have faces are hairless. Infants have pink faces which turn darker with age. Although we have no tail, infants have a white tail tuft. The favorite food for us are fruits and young leaves, but we like many different types of food. In the dry season we will eat buds and blossoms, soft pitch, stems, galls, honey, bark and resin, seeds

and nuts. Insects, like ants and termites are also in our diet. On rare occasions we will hunt small game like monkeys, pigs, and antelopes.

For the most part, we forage on the ground. While searching for food, troops will move around their territory, never staying long in one place. This allows the vegetation to recover before we return to the area again. we do not compete for food with monkeys, who forage mostly in the canopy.

I reach puberty at about seven years. Females mature three to four years later. Females will not breed for three to four years after giving birth. we are capable of reproducing until the age of 40. The maximum life span in the wild is about 60 years.

The newborns are helpless at birth. After a few days it holds on to the mother's hair and at 5 to 7 months rides jockey style on the her back. By four years, the infant usually walks, but stays close to the mother for about five to seven years. we communities are made up of 15 to 100 members. Males tend to stay in the community we are born into, but females move between different communities during their adolescent years.

we have developed several behavioral adaptations. At night we construct nests of leaves and branches 18-29 feet high in a tree. Males will hunt cooperatively for baby monkeys or bush pigs. Some groups have been observed to use thin twigs or blades of grass to extract termites from their nests. Some of us  in western Africa use wood and stone tools as hammers to open nuts.
we are on the endangered species list. we may be as many as 35,000 chimps in the wild, but destruction of their habitats, hunting and commercial trapping for the animal trade had reduced their population.

And if the rainforest will disappear  I will leave with people to stay in  a save sayed because they will give me every thing and they will take care about me .
                                                                         

                                                                           This is my life.

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