Chimpanzee

Kingdom: Animalia                                          

Characteristics that place it here

• multicellular, 

• they rely on others,

•  they injest and digest 

• they have their own means of locomotion.

Phylum: Chordata

Characteristics that place it here:

•  They have a spinal cord, 

• a notochord and symmetrical bodies.

• At some point they use pouches.

Class: Mammalia

Characteristics that place it here:

• live birth

• young are nourished with the mother's milk

• they have a variety of specialized teeth

• warm-blooded

• they have sweat glands, a 4-chambered heart and large brains

• complex nervous system

Order: Primates

Characteristics that place it here:

• shortened nose

• large eyes

• large skull

• they can crawl easily

• moveable bones in arms and legs.

Family: Hominidade

Characteristics the place it here:

• teeth never develop into tusks

• upper molars are quadrate 

• they lack lophs

Genius: Pan

Characteristics that place it here:

• eats fruit, shoots, leaves, flowers, bark, rodents, snakes, ants, termites, crickets, beetles, earthworms, millipedes, and caterpillars.

• Lives in forests or swamps

Species: Pan Troglodytes

The chimpanzee likes to live in damp areas. They are the animals that are most like humans. they have feet and hands like we do, and react to things in a similar way that we do.

I'm a chimpanzee

I love to climb the big trees

I like to eat leaves.

References

Information on all of the classes on January 10~

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~joha0103/chimpfr.html

Picture and background on January 10~

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/pan/p._troglodytes$narrative.html