1.
Humans have the same number of hair follicles as
chimpanzees.
2. Chimpanzees
can develop their own fashion trends.
3. Washoe,
the chimpanzee, was the first non-human to learn American Sign Language. She
also passed on her knowledge to other chimpanzees.
4. Congo,
the Chimp was a famous abstract painter in the 1950s who sold paintings to
Picasso, Dalí and others for up to US$26,000.
5. In
2008, a chimpanzee named Anjana adopted and raised two baby white tigers named
Mitra and Shiva after a hurricane.
6. Elephants
and chimpanzees can display behaviour patterns similar to post-traumatic stress
disorder and depression.
7. Chimpanzees
can identify each other from pictures of their butts.
8. The
United States and Gabon are the only two countries that allow experimentation
on chimpanzees.
9. Chimpanzees
fart so loudly and frequently that scientists locate them in forest
occasionally by following the farts.
10. Comparative
analysis indicated that chimpanzees and bonobos show population-level right
handedness, whereas gorillas and orang-utans do not.
11.
Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov attempted
to impregnate a chimpanzee with human sperm to create a human-ape hybrid.
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