Chimpanzees manage to blur the line between the human and animal world. Chimpanzees have distinct personalities, rational and problem solving abilities, show altruism and even the ability to think abstractly. 

Sadly, only about 150,000 chimpanzees remain in the wild, where 2 million lived in 1900. The threats to chimpanzees are numerous, and the need to save them urgent. They offer man a critical link to the past and are far too important not to be included in the future.