![]() ![]() Gillie and Marc’s highly coveted public artworks can be found worldwide including in New York, London, Singapore, Shanghai, and Sydney. The sculpture will be aligned with the hashtag #LoveTheLast to raise unparalleled awareness about the sculpture’s cause across the globe. It will bring people into close contact and will help them to fall in love, and with love comes a greater urge to want to create a change and save all endangered animals. Through public art, more people will come into contact with these sculptures, will stop and consider them, will take a photograph, and will discuss this with their friends and family. With this increased exposure, the message of love, family, and conservation will be spread much further than any piece of art in a gallery ever could. Since the 1980s, Ebola has been a major threat killing hundreds of thousands of chimpanzees.īased off real animals that Gillie and Marc met while travelling, the public will be able to meet individual animals. With DNA so similar to our own it is not surprising that chimpanzees are susceptible to many of the same diseases that we are. The hunters are also known to take the young as their pets or sell them on the illegal pet trade, a lifestyle that is never suitable for a wild animal. ![]() Chimps are also targeted by bushmeat hunters as they provide plenty of meat compared to other smaller animals. Families retaliate by killing the chimps to stop any other attacks. In their desperation to find enough to eat, the chimps are forced to come to human settlements to steal food, mainly easy to grab things such as fruit, but when things are really tough, they have been known to take children. This issue over food, in particular, has led to human-chimpanzee conflict. This is making it harder for the chimps to survive, forcing them to live in smaller and smaller spaces and putting a major strain on food options. Because of major increases in human populations, miles and miles of their habitat is being destroyed, clearing space for city expansion, agriculture, roads, logging, and mining. This shows their diverse and complex emotions, and most importantly, their ability to love.Ĭhimpanzees are now endangered because of our actions. Mothers will carry their dead babies around others will groom their friend. Those who were closest to the deceased are visibly more upset and spend a lot more time in the process of mourning. The important bonds between chimpanzees can also be seen when the grieve for their dead. Chimps can spend a few minutes and even up to a few hours grooming each other, maintaining friendly ties between the community. Not only is it important to stay clean and tidy, but it’s also a fantastic way to strengthen bonds, build alliances, and relax. ![]() Grooming is an incredibly important part of chimp life. They have intricate connections between the different members of their community, touching, cuddling, and sometimes fighting with each other. Until then, the mother will play with her baby and teach them all the important skills needed for being a chimp.Ĭhimps are incredibly social creatures. As young chimps, they will still stay with their mothers for up to 9 years. They start to be able to move around independently by the age of 2 and by 4-6 are weaned. For the first 30 days of their life, the baby will cling to their mother's belly and will move on to riding on their backs at 5 or 6 months. The babies are completely helpless and the level of love and care given by the mother is crucial for a healthy baby. We all have our own unique personalities, are incredibly social, can learn basic sign-language, and, most importantly use and make tools.Ī chimpanzee will usually only give birth to one baby at a time. It’s even thought that we have a common ancestor who lived sometime between 7-13 million years ago! Through research we have been able to see some of the magical similarities between us and chimpanzees. The chimpanzee is our closest living relative, sharing about 99% of our DNA. They have been known to eat chimps and steal babies as their pets. They look and acted so similar to him he thought they would be great fun! But he was warned against them. He thought that he could be friends with another community that sometimes comes near his home called humans. He watches closely as his mum goes around her day to day life, learning as much as he can while taking every opportunity to have fun. From the famous Gombe Stream community in Tanzania, this 4-year-old chimp still has a lot to learn.
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