The Chimpanzee: Our closest living relative.
This photo seems to almost haunt me, usually it's quite easy to think of something to say about a photo but this portrait of a chimpanzee deserves more than an easy description. I feel privileged to have been afforded the chance to make the photograph; and voyeuristic, as though I took a picture of a homeless person or a prisoner. The piercing eye contact is quite powerful.
In a way, the chimpanzee is both: its native habitat is disappearing and it is housed in a zoo, in Japan, 1000s of km from its home range. Whether this chimpanzee was born in captivity or not, I do not know.
This chimpanzee was waiting in a small room like enclosure which had a few things to climb on, the enclosure was titled as some sort of classroom so I think it was for the mental stimulation and exercise of the chimpanzees that were at the zoo. There wasn't any activity happening when I took the photo. Perhaps, the zoo staff were preparing for the activity or had recently finished. At the moment of taking these pictures this chimpanzee was sitting down looking at the visitors of the zoo and at the other chimpanzees in the nearby, more open enclosure.
Behind that face is a mind very similar to our own. I know I've looked at my hand in much the same way when bored and waiting.
Chimpanzees are adept at solving problems. They communicate their culture (they've been documented teaching other chimpanzees to use sticks to extract termites from logs, and techniques for doing similar things differ from troop to troop); they are able to learn from human beings too.
Chimpanzees are, after all, our closest living relatives and share 98.8% of the same DNA. They are intelligent, complex creatures.
Chimpanzees are an endangered species due to habitat loss and hunting by humans, without conservation efforts they might already be extinct, with them hopefully, they can make a recovery, however their population is still decreasing.
Two of the other chimpanzees were sleeping on a platform, very much the same way we would in the afternoon.
More information about Chimpanzees on wikipedia
They are remarkable creatures. Shouldn't be held in captive tho. they need to be free
Yes, that would be best.
Nice article man
Thanks @arorapuneet!
I knew we were close relatives but I had no idea our DNA was so similar! Great post :)
It is quite high, some have even argued humans should be classed together with chimpanzees in the genus "pan" rather than our own genus "homo".
Great post. I like it,
Thank you for your support @nimesha94!
i always wonder what they are thinking
Indeed, though without words, it would be very hard to interpret.
my long lost uncle, Alf
LOL
Maybe a bit farther back than that. :P
There are no apes in my Family Tree, such hypothesis is purely speculative.
There is no evidence, only conjecture and the popular narrative that many perceive erroneously as fact.
So when you say "we" you must mean "you" because that narrative is rejected in my court... no threat, no attack and no harm intended...
There are mountains of evidence. Facts are true whether you reject them or not.
Ever find it interesting that there are no species around that link the Apes to Mankind? If we evolved from Apes, then why are Apes still around, but all the geological evidence of intermediate species between Ape and Man is not present? Evolution says that at some point, a particular species evolved into another one, but that the original species still went on. (In other words, we still see bacteria, fish, etc….they didn’t all evolve to the higher form). So what happened to all the cave men, neanderthals, etc. that we supposedly evolved from? Why do they not still exist today and where is the evidence of them ever existing at all, yet all these other species in the chain of species still exist? Face it, the whole evolutionary "THEORY" is basically; if given enough time a garbage heap will assemble it's self into an operating fully functional 747 Jet Liner? Ridiculous... That’s not science, it’s a foolish indoctrinated theory in belief that one must adhere to in schools and colleges of today in order to be accepted in the absence of the findings in Creation.
It's difficult to tell sarcasm from true belief on the internet - Poe's Law
But I'll treat it as though you were serious. (Let me know if you're actually just trolling! :) )
There's a great deal of fossil species showing how humans and chimpanzees evolved.
Also you fundamentally misunderstand evolution.
Evolution
and more specifically:
Human evolution
Sorry those aren't the shortest articles available but they should give you a good grasp of what the scientific consensus is.
Where are the cavemen, neanderthals, homo erectus etc? They are dead. You can see their bones if you visit a museum that has them on display.
You attempt to conflate the colloquial definition of theory (a guess or supposition) with the definition of a scientific theory :
Also, a garbage heap, perhaps left over from a exploding star, can very well become a 747, a human, a grain of sand, evidence for that is literally everywhere.
However, I do suspect, as you ended your post with a capitalized "Creation" the only source you believe in is a bible, and this post is a wasted effort. How many versions of that book exist?
Actually the "bible" is a corruption of the very word from our Creator (Torah), but close enough to show that you get my drift.
Many of those articles found in museums have been proven to be fraudulent as they are proved to be like maybe the tooth of a swine or similar. And the cyclic justification in which the geology proves the artifact and the artifact proves the geology is just silly.
Anyone can find a chip of bone or tooth and surmise what it might be or even label it as such. But that is considered fraud and is a crime against Mankind.
So you have your indoctrination and I have my beliefs and one of us has to be wrong. More and more evidence is being found which supports the ancient Torah narrative of Creation, but it is all circumvented, squashed and covered up. Less the truth be found out then catholicism would go bankrupt and professors careers would get ruined.
Indoctrination, are you sure you're applying that word correctly?
Not my example but it fits.
Science is constantly being refined as new discoveries are made, and old knowledge examined and reexamined.
You have new evidence, and more and more of it, that supports the Torah version of Creation?
Why not cite it?
Understanding Torah comes with much study and great sacrifice. I can no more help you to understand it than I could a swine the 6:00 News. It is beyond your ability to comprehend...
I'm certain it's well within my ability to comprehend.
I asked for evidence, which you professed to have, not to be insulted.
So, where is this evidence that proves your claim?
We need to protect these animals! There are so many threatened species out there! If you care and feel responsible... check out our page : @prtctanimal
Fortunately/unfotunately, I did check out your page.
I strongly suggest you stop lifting text from the IUCN Red List.
Doing so violates the use agreements on that site as well as the ethics regarding plagiarism as you haven't cited your sources, and link to your own for profit site.
Cite your sources, write your own text.
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