Paw Prints Factoids: Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees

Chimpanzees can live to be almost 50.
Chimpanzees lie a lot. That's been known since chimps were taught sign language.
A chimp baby nurses for about three years.
Only three sorts of animals realize when they look in mirrors that they're looking at themselves: humans, chimps, and orangutans.
The chimpanzee's brain is fully grown after a year. Your brain keeps on growing until you are in your 20s.
Male monkeys go bald.
Even chimpanzees that are born and brought up in laboratories exhibit terror when they first see snakes.
Chimps play peek-a-boo.
Almost all chimpanzees in the wild fall out of trees and break bones. Examinations of chimp skeletons prove that.