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Meet the Chimpanzee

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When you’ve watched chimpanzees at the zoo or in nature films, did you realize you were watching one of your closest relatives in the animal kingdom? Experts say humans share from 95 percent to 98 percent of the same DNA with chimps. Chimpanzees and humans are a lot alike. We are also a lot different. The Mini Page talked with a research videographer from the Jane Goodall Institute to learn more about this fun, intelligent animal. Jane Goodall has been studying chimpanzees for more than 50 years. She founded the institute, which helps chimpanzees, an endangered species.

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Fanni, a chimpanzee from Gombe, cradles her infant, Fax. Chimp offspring often stay emotionally close to their mothers for their whole lives.

Jane Goodall shares a close moment with one of the chimps at Gombe (GOM-bay) National Park in Tanzania, Africa.

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Chimps play their whole lives. Even the oldest male chimps may play with the young.

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Sharing DNA DNA is the coding in genes for how all living things on Earth look and act. All life, including plants, share DNA. Humans share more DNA with chimps and another ape, the bonobo, than with any other animal. But no one would mistake a human for a chimp.

Hard to compare No one really knows how intelligent chimps are. They have different uses for their intelligence than humans do, so it can be hard for us to measure. Human brains are about three times bigger than chimps’ brains. But the structure of chimp and human brains is a lot alike.Joking around Chimps love to laugh and play. Experts say they can hear chimps laughing through the forest. They pretend to bite and chase each other, play keep-away, and play jokes. Some of their jokes look a lot like what some humans might do. For example, a chimp might casually stick out its leg and trip another chimp walking by. And then the joke-player laughs.

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Chimps Communicating

Words that remind us of chimpanzees are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally. See if you can find: AFRICA, ALPHA, BEHAVIOR, CALL, CLIMB, DISPLAY, ENDANGERED, FOREST, GROOM, HABITAT, JOKES, LANGUAGE, LAUGH, NEST, PLAY, RELATIVES, SIGN, SMART, TOOL, TREES, USE, WILD.

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Chimps are a lot like people!

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The Mini Page provides ideas for websites, books or other resources that will help you learn more about this week’s topics.On the Web:• www.janegoodall.org• http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/animals/

creaturefeature/chimpanzee/• http://www.lpzoosites.org/chimp-ssp/chimpanzees.htmAt the library:• “My Life With the Chimpanzees” by Jane Goodall• “Chimpanzees Are Smart!” by Leigh Rockwood


Individual calls Chimps have a long-distance call called a pant-hoot. Just as you can recognize a voice on the phone, chimps can tell which chimp is calling, even if they can’t see it. Experts say it is important for chimps to know where all the other chimps are. This way, they know how to behave. For example, if they didn’t know the top, or alpha, male was coming, they might not act non- threatening enough. That male might then do something unpleasant to them. Getting along Chimps call back and forth throughout the day. Like people, chimps have grudges and enemies. They have allies, or helpers, and favorite companions. Chimps want to know where the other chimps are so they can avoid them or join them.

Language Jane Goodall says one of the main things that set humans apart from chimpanzees is our spoken language. Our language is closely tied with the development of the human intelligence.Chimp calls Chimps send information by different calls, both within their own groups and across the forest. They have special calls to give warning, to show they are puzzled, to say they like their food, to express anger or fear, and to show excitement. They have a greeting grunt and an evening call. The evening call is especially calm and peaceful as they’re going to bed. Chimps also learn who to listen to. For example, one chimp at Gombe was so lazy that he always called the evening sound hours before bedtime. But it did him no good. The other chimps ignored him.

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Chimps communicate with touch and physical displays, or shows. They make faces at each other to show their feelings.They show affection by grooming each other, kissing, hugging, tickling, touching each other’s hands and patting each other’s backs, much like we do.

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Rookie Cookie’s RecipeChocolate Pretzel Bites

You’ll need:• 1 (12-ounce) package chocolate “kisses” candy• 70 to 72 square-grid pretzels or small knotted pretzels• 70 to 72 peanuts (or candied pecans or cranberry raisins)What to do:1. Unwrap chocolate candies and place one on top of each pretzel

on a baking sheet.2. Bake in a 250-degree oven for 4 minutes until chocolate softens

on top.3. Gently press peanut (or other nut or raisin) on top of each

softened chocolate “kiss.”4. Chill for one hour to set. You will need an adult’s help with this recipe.


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Meet Some Wild Rescues This orangutan lost her parents, but she was lucky and was rescued. Her story and the story of other orphaned and endangered animals is told in the IMAX documentary movie “Born to Be Wild 3D.” This film tells the true story of orangutans and elephants that were left without parents but given new homes. The story is also about the caring people who rescued and raised these baby animals.

The movie features animal experts from Borneo and Kenya who work to save these animals. The scientists and their teams rescue the orphans, raise them and then return them to the wild.


Charlie: How do you catch a chimpanzee?Charlotte: Hang upside down and make a noise

like a banana!

Chase: What kind of ice cream do great apes eat?Camille: Chocolate chimp!

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All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category?

Charlize: What flower do chimps plant in their gardens?

Chester: Pansies!


Mini Spy . . .Mini Spy and her friends love to visit the chimps at the zoo. See if you can find: • number 3 • dragon • heart • number 7• word MINI • sock • letter A • umbrella• bat • question • teapot • doughnut• cup mark • fish • cherry


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An orphaned orangutan that had been rescued and returned to the wild shows off her new baby.

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Chimp Challenges


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Talking to humans Chimpanzees are smart. Chimps in captivity have been taught to “talk” with sign language. The most famous chimp, Washoe, learned 240 signs. Jane Goodall said that Washoe could guess at a word even if shedidn’t know the exact name for something. For example, once when she was shown a brush, she called it a comb. She wasn’t just memorizingnames. She could figure out how the two things were alike. When she saw herself in the mirror, she was asked in sign, “Who is that?” She signed back, “Me, Washoe.”

Mighty Mike The chimps that can use tools have a survival advantage over other chimps. Mike is a good example. Often chimps fight each other to become alpha male. But Mike was small. It was hard for him to win fights against bigger chimps. But he was smart, and he found another way. He discovered that if he stole a cooking oil can, he could roll it in front of him so it made a loud noise while he put on a charging display, or show. When he first tried this, the other chimps ran away screaming. Mike became the alpha male, the leader of his group.

Tool-making For years, people thought the only creatures that made and used tools were humans. Jane Goodall discovered chimps creating a kind of fishing rod to capture termites, a favorite chimp food. She saw chimps actually breaking off twigs and stripping off the leaves to make a better termite fishing rod. Her discovery changed the way we look at animals and ourselves.

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Chimps are endangered. They need the tropical forests at the equator to survive. About 100 years ago, there were about a million chimps in Africa. Now there are only about 150,000 to 300,000.People are destroying more and more of their tropical forest habitat, and people are killing them for meat.

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Chimps build nests in trees each night. Males climb between 4 to 12 feet up the tree until they find a solid platform in a branch. They break more branches to make it stronger, and add leaves to make it soft.

The Mini Page thanks Bill Wallauer, research videographer and filmmaker for the Jane Goodall Institute, for help with this issue.

Next week, The Mini Page is about newspapers.

Look through your newspaper for stories about animals.

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to use three cans to make his display even scarier. He stayed alpha male for six years.

A chimp “fishes” for termites. Chimps use tools to clean themselves, as weapons, and to get food and water. They use tools for more purposes than any other animal except humans.

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Standards Spotlight: Meet the Chimpanzee

Mini Page activities meet many state and national educational standards. Each week we identify standards that relate to The Mini Page’s content and offer activities that will help your students reach them.This week’s standard:• Students understand the characteristics of organisms. (Science: Life Science) Activities:1. Use newspaper words to make a collage about chimps.2. Ask friends if they can name some ways that chimps are similar to people.

Then share what you have learned from The Mini Page with your friends.3. Circle three items in the newspaper that you think chimps would like to play

with. Explain why.4. How did these items/activities show that chimps are intelligent: (a) twig fishing

rod, (b) oil can, (c) sign language, and (d) tripping another chimp?5. Use the Internet to learn about chimps’ relatives in the ape family. Write

a paragraph about your findings. How are they like chimps? How are they different?

(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)

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