Interesting Facts About Chimpanzees - En.tempo.co

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Chimpanzee is an intelligent primate that has been attracting researchers to conduct study on them. Discovery News revealed that the animal also has some emotions similar to human. Here are six interesting facts about the chimps.

1. Chimps can kill

In many documentary videos, this animal may look cute and adorable. But they can get into a brutal fight when it comes to territory seizure. The attack is usually done by the males that would kill for territory, food, colony, and female chimps.

2. Chimps have awesome sexual intercourse

According to a study in the journal Nature, male chimpanzees have spines on their penis. This spine, while improving stimulation, can also inflict damage on females during intercourse.

3. Chimps Innovate

Chimpanzees are claimed to have intelligent level almost similar to human. A study on chimps living in Zambia showed that different groups of chimpanzees invented eight different ways to open hard-shelled fruit, showing that chimps can innovate.

4. Chimps Laugh

When you tickle a chimp, they would actually giggle and sometimes their laughter sounds like human’s. In fact, they laugh more than human do because they can do it while inhaling and exhaling.

5. Chimps look out for each other

In several studies, chimpanzees showed helping-hands to other chimps in their colony. And once they learn to help a friend out one time, they’ll do it up to 97 percent of the time. Chimpanzees showed that they can cooperate and even trade tools to get the work done.

6. Chimps mourn

In a documentary video, a female chimp was seen mourning her recently deceased infant. The mother chimp even carried the dead body everywhere for weeks.

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