Chimpanzee

Description:

Adults in the wild weigh between 40 and 65 kg (88 and 140 lb), though males in captivity such as Travis the Chimp have reached 200 pounds; males can measure up to 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) and females to 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in). Their body is covered by a coarse black hair, except for the face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands and soles of the feet. Both their thumbs and their big toes are opposable, allowing a precision grip.

Habitat:

Rainforest surrounded by sugar cane.

Notes:

Spotted these chimps eating sugar cane in Kasongoire forest near Masindi. The area around the forest was being cut for sugarcane plantations making the chimps habitat even smaller. The chimps would come out of the forest to eat the sugar cane and were slowly getting used to humans watching them from afar. The area is being developed for tourism to help save the chimps by putting some money into the local economy. A park ranger told me about the place and I was one of the first visitors.