Although data on the great apes are crucial for origins modeling, they are too often misapplied in reference to human behavioral evolution. Others attempt to explain hominid innovations with chimpanzee‐like behaviors (e.g., bipedal posture, simple tool use, social hunting) when basic evolutionary theory dictates that only differences between closely related forms explain their divergence. Some referential models describe early hominid niches (e.g., locomotion, meat procurement) as presumably similar to those of extant great apes, but observed fossil anatomy suggests otherwise. Chimps are 35.5 ft (11.7 m) tall when standing upright, weigh 70130 lbs (3260 kg), and have a brown or black coat and a bare face. An examination of four aspects of chimpanzee society that are prominent in discussions of human evolution-bipedal posture, tool use, cooperative hunting, and culture-indicates that other animals, even nonprimates, engage in analogous behaviors. chimpanzee, Species ( Pan troglodytes) of great ape that inhabits the rain forests and woodland savannas of equatorial Africa, the closest living relative to humans.

In addition to chimpanzees’ close evolutionary relationship to humans, the justification for this approach is that their behaviors are complex and human‐like compared with those of other animals. Although this document was finalized in 2015, we hope that it will continue to provide inspiration as to how lending banks can engage positively to ensure the future of our closest living relatives.Chimpanzee referential models for early hominid behavior have become the most common of all current approaches. The addition of this requirement has already increased partnership and collaboration between the World Bank Group and the Section on Great Apes of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group. Importantly, the IFC has incorporated new wording into the Guidance Note for Performance Standard Six (see above). The International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the private lending branch of the World Bank Group – has worked with the government of Guinea and the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation to support creation of a new national park with funding from two mining companies to compensate for damage to chimpanzee habitat elsewhere in Guinea. In particular, there has been movement towards aggregation of biodiversity offsets with the funding of a national strategy for offsets by the World Bank in Liberia. These adaptations include:arms and shoulders that enable them to swing from branch to branch (especially in young, lighter bodied chimpanzees) long, curved. Nonetheless, several of the recommendations formulated have been taken on board by the World Bank. Due to internal structural and leadership changes, the strategy was not adopted as an “official” World Bank document. Taking ape conservation to heart: A strategy for mainstreaming ape conservation into World Bank Group policies and actions was presented to the World Bank in 2015, accompanied by a video sent by Jane Goodall to introduce the strategy.

The document underwent extensive peer-review by representatives of the ape conservation community. The scope of the strategy covers both African apes (bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas) and Asian apes (gibbons and orangutans). While this document is addressed to the World Bank specifically, the concerns, ideas and solutions within it apply to all financial institutions who lend funds to projects in ape habitat. The aim is not only to prevent the decline of apes around the world but also to reverse it.

The document is a strategy for addressing ape conservation in a landscape context and presents ways in which ape conservation can be mainstreamed, implemented and operationalized within government, private sector and development planning, activities and policies. It emphasizes that protection of apes and ape habitat contributes not only to supporting but also to enhancing livelihoods and the well-being of people. These slender, agile primates live in a small. It argues that focusing on ape habitats and using apes as flagship and umbrella species for conservation can be an effective way of protecting ecosystems that are critical to sustaining human livelihoods over the long term. Gibbons are so closely related to humans that they live in monogamous families and can walk upright on two legs. The resulting document presents a strategy and role for lending banks to contribute to the protection of great apes and gibbons and their habitat. gorilla, (genus Gorilla), genus of primates containing the largest of the apes. In 2012, the World Bank took the extraordinary step of requesting expert input to create a World Bank Strategy for Great Apes. brachiation, in animal behaviour, specialized form of arboreal locomotion in which movement is accomplished by swinging from one hold to another by the arms.

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