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Humans do not immediately abandon their dead but exhibit a plethora of post-mortem social behaviour towards them (Parkes et al. Primate thanatology, the study of the behaviour and underlying physiological and psychological factors associated with dead or dying individuals in non-human primates (hereafter primates), continues to raise important questions about human uniqueness (Anderson 2011, 2018 Anderson et al. We discuss these observations in view of functional hypotheses of dead-infant carrying in primates and the potential proximate mechanisms involved in this behaviour. In addition, we report four instances of recurring dead-infant carrying by mothers, three of whom carried the corpse for longer during the second instance. We also observed three additional cases of extended carrying lasting for more than 2 weeks, one of which was followed by the unusual extended carrying of an object and another which lasted 3 months.

We documented the post-mortem behaviour of the mothers and describe nine occasions where Budongo chimpanzee mothers carried infants for 1–3 days after their death, usually until the body started to decompose. During a combined 40-year observation period, we recorded 191 births of which 68 died in infancy, mostly within the first year. Here, we report long-term demographic data from two East African chimpanzee groups. You can learn to 'speak' chimpanzee in this video.It has been suggested that non-human primates can respond to deceased conspecifics in ways that suggest they experience psychological states not unlike humans, some of which could indicate they exhibit a notion of death. They show affection for one another by embracing, touching hands, and even kissing. Chimpanzees communicate using gestures, facial expressions, and vocalizations.

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Chimpanzees live in fission-fusion societies - large communities of up to a few hundred chimpanzees, with smaller subgroups that break off from the community temporarily.

Watch how the chimps build nests in sanctuary.

At night, chimpanzees build sleeping nests in trees using carefully-selected branches and leaves.

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Chimpanzees have also been observed using stones to crack open nuts and using sticks to extract honey from bee hives. Jane Goodall discovered tool use by wild chimpanzees in 1960 when she observed a chimpanzee using blades of grass to extract termites from a termite mound. Learn about the diet we provide in sanctuary. Some groups of chimpanzees hunt and eat colobus monkeys and other small mammals. They also eat leaves, nuts, seeds, birds’ eggs, and insects.

Chimpanzees are frugivores, which means their main food staple is fruit.

Baby chimpanzees can be identified by their small size and a tuft of white hair on their backside that disappears when they reach adolescence.

Chimpanzees can live up to 45 years in the wild and up to 60 years in captivity.

At one time, the majority of these chimpanzees lived in laboratories, but today there are more chimpanzees living in sanctuaries than any other captive setting!

According to the Project ChimpCare census, there are approximately 2,000 chimpanzees in the United States.

Scientists estimate there are between 170,000 and 300,000 chimpanzees currently living in the wild.

Chimpanzees are endangered due to habitat loss and hunting.

Their current range spans 21 African countries.

Chimpanzees are endemic to the forests and savannahs of equatorial Africa.

Chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than they are to gorillas!

Chimpanzees and humans share approximately 95% of their DNA old studies reported a 98% match but a study in 2002 showed that a 5% divergence is more accurate.

Chimpanzees are “great apes.” The other great apes are bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and humans.