Top Twenty Reasons to Care about the Great Apes
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Many are on the endangered species list, it is time help them out.
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Great Apes Live Long Lives
Some as long as 40 years.
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Great Apes have Inspired International Coorperation.
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Great Apes can Catch Human Diseases.
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Wars have threatened the Great Apes.
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The Great Apes are losing their Habitats.
Rainforests are being destroyed around the world.
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In 1975 the CITES treaty was signed to protect wild great apes.
CITES = Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species.
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Chimpanzees have be into space.
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Jane Goodall has dedicated her life to the study of chimpanzees.
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Great Apes have Assisted in Medical Research.
Many think these practices are inhumane and in 2005 Chimps were no longer being used for research and were sent to 'chimp haven' in Louisiana.
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Great Apes are caring parents.
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Apes communicate feelings through sound and facial expression.
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Apes make and use tools.
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Great Apes can learn sign language.
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Apes are problem solvers.
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Great Apes have spindle cells.
Spindle cells are in charge of emotion.
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Silverback apes are strong but they rarely fight.
They know that they can hurt each other so they beat their chest and roar loudly.
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Great Apes Live in Groups just a humans do.
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The apes help spread seeds to different parts of the rain forest.
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Most of the Great Apes Live Near the Equator
They live in the tropical rainforest which are being lost at an alarming rate.
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Most of the Great Apes are in danger of Extinction
There natural habitat is disappering.
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