This is a young chimp. The young ones are better than the old ones, just like humans.

And yet, when you look at the phenotypes, there's a chimp, there's a man they're astoundingly different, no resemblance at all.

The chimp is going to see, watch carefully, they're going to see 200 milliseconds' exposure that's fast, that's eight movie frames of numbers one, two, three, four, five.

The report also recommends special requirements for keeping the remaining chimps housing in groups of at least seven, with a minimum of 1,000 square feet per chimp, room to climb, and opportunities to forage for food.

Ham (July 1956 January 19, 1983), also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was a chimpanzee and the first Hominidae launched into space, on 31 January 1961, as part of America's space program.

As far as the treatment of apes is concerned, much of the film is firmly grounded in reality, as a viewing of Project Nim, a documentary based on Elizabeth Hess s book Nim Chimpsky The Chimp Who Would be Human, clearly demonstrates.

So, while measuring nucleotide similarity in homologous regions is indeed in the 98 99 range, this number does not incorporate or acknowledge the measured difference in the size of the human and chimp genomes, or the widespread differences in chromosome or genome structure.

Instead, performance capture technology, originally invented for the movie Avatar, enables a human actor, Andy Serkis, to play the role of the chimpanzee Caesar, not by dressing in a chimp suit, but by having every gesture and facial movement, even the twitch of an eyebrow, transformed into the movement of an ape.