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Chimpanzee
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CHIMPANZEE

Chimpanzees are very social primates that live in large groups - sometimes with more than 100 members. Infants sleep in tree-top nests with their mothers and ride piggyback as she searches for food in the forest until they are able to venture out on their own, at between five and six years of age.

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