37 Interesting Facts About Chimpanzees

26-30 Chimpanzee Facts

26. NBC’s Today Show had a chimpanzee host for four years in the 1950s. – Source

27. Gregoire was the oldest chimpanzee on record at the time of his death who spent over 40 years confined to the cage before being rescued. – Source

28. There was a chimpanzee in Russia named John that became addicted to cigarettes and alcohol and had to go to rehab for his addictions. – Source

29. The first heart transplant performed on a human used a chimpanzee donor heart. The recipient died after 90 minutes but the procedure paved the way for future transplants. – Source

30. Ayumu, a chimpanzee studied at Kyoto University, outperformed University students in a short-term memory test, leading to the conclusion that young chimps have better short-term memories than adult humans. – Source

31-35 Chimpanzee Facts

31. “Tião Monkey” holds the Guinness record for the most voted Chimpanzee in the world. In 1988, he received over 400 thousand votes for Rio de Janeiro Mayor as a protest for null voting. – Source

32. The 2008 World Memory Champion once lost a memory game to a seven-year-old chimpanzee. – Source

33. Pepsi used a chimpanzee to roll dice in order to determine the grand prize number for their Billion Dollar Sweepstakes. – Source

34. A part of Jennifer Connelly’s finger was bitten off by a chimpanzee while filming a scene for Dario Argento’s 1985 “Phenomena.” She was rushed to the ER and had it reattached. – Source

35. There is a chimpanzee sanctuary in Quebec, where former lab and zoo chimpanzees can live out the rest of their days in peace. – Source

36-37 Chimpanzee Facts

36. The eyes of a chimpanzee were superimposed on the hologram of the Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back to make the character “more eerie.” – Source

37. A chimpanzee figured out how to grab a peanut that was stuck in a fixed long tube by transferring water it collected in its mouth into the tube. – Source