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Across

  1. Save the Chimps acquired an additional 266 chimps by purchasing the notorious ________ Foundation Laboratory in Alamogordo, NM. (8)
  2. Chimps feed, travel, and sleep in small groups, of six or less, called _______. (7)
  3. By the age of three, a chimpanzee is as strong as an adult _____. (5)
  4. Chimpanzees used to live throughout tropical ______ in an area almost the size of the united states that included 25 countries. (6)
  5. Today, chimpanzees are _______ in four of the 25 countries they used to live in, and extinction can be expected soon in another five countries. (7)
  6. ________ is a chimpanzees single most important social activity and takes up most of each day's rest periods. (8)
  7. Like humans, chimpanzees have ________ similar to those we call joy, anger, grief, sorrow, pleasure, boredom and depression. (8)
  8. Newborn chimpanzees are entirely dependant on their _______ for warmth, protection, transportation and nourishment. (7)
  9. Approximately 1,700 chimpanzees are used for biomedical _______ in the United States. (7)
  10. Save the Chimps is located on 200 acres of land in North St. Lucie County, _______. (7)
  11. When chimps in entertainment get older, they become too strong, and are usually "thrown away" into testing ____________. (12)
  12. Chimpanzees __________ with each other through a complex system of sounds, gestures, body postures and facial expressions. (11)
  13. Save the Chimps' first inhabitants were 21 ___ _____ chimpanzees. (8)
  14. A chimp's ____ may consist of almost 200 different plant species and more than 20 types of insects. (4)
  15. When chimps are kept as pets, they usually end up living their entire lives in _____, because, as they get older, they become too strong to handle. (5)
  16. Chimpanzees in entertainment are usually ______ that were taken from their mothers. (6)
  17. ___________ share all but 1.4% of our DNA. (11)
  18. Save the Chimps consists of 12 three-acre _______. (7)

Down

  1. Today, chimpanzees are __________ with as few as 150,000 left in the wild. (10)
  2. A chimpanzee is considered an _____ at the age of 13. (5)
  3. Save the Chimp's mission is to provide _________ sanctuary for the lifelong care of chimpanzees rescued from research labs, entertainment and the pet trade. (9)
  4. Between 15 and 120 chimpanzees of all ages live in a group called a _________. (9)
  5. Probably no other facet of chimpanzee behavior has received more notice than the manufacture and use of _____. (5)
  6. Noted primatologists Jane _______ and Roger Fouts serve on the Save the Chimps Board of Directors. (7)
  7. Save the Chimps was established in 1997 under the ledership of Carole ____, Ph.D. (4)
  8. Tool use of chimpanzees includes pounding of nuts and hard shells with sticks and stone _______. (7)
  9. Chimpanzees _______ and reassure one another by kissing and embracing. (7)
  10. Save the Chimps was the first _________ in the United States devoted exclusively to chimpanzees. (9)
  11. Chimpanzees can live to be more than _____ years old. (5)
  12. The Air Force chimps were used in the early ____ Space Program to test the effects of space travel on humans. (4)
  13. Chimpanzees closest relations are humans, not ________ or orangutans. (8)
  14. Through grooming, chimpanzees nourish friendships, comfort each other, and patch up _____________. (13)
  15. Chimps have been known to sponge water from hollow trees with wads of crumpled ______. (6)
  16. In the1950's, there were probably a _______ chimpanzees living in Africa. (7)