Little Chimps At Detroit Zoo Love Spring: Watch Video Until The End

ROYAL OAK, MI — The kids just couldn’t be contained during a stretch of springlike weather — temperatures hovered around 70 last weekend in Metro Detroit, making it warmer than Los Angeles, Phoenix and other escapes from what typically is brutal winter weather. The young chimpanzees at the Detroit Zoo weren’t any different than your own children.

A video set to music and uploaded to YouTube by user Patti Truesdell is sure to make you smile. The chimps play tag. They hide from one another. They wrestle and show themselves to be agile gymnasts and tree climbers. Be sure to watch until the end to see how similar they are to human children.

That’s not your imagination at work. Scientists who sequenced the genome of chimpanzees have discovered that human and chimpanzee DNA is 96 percent similar.

“We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament,” Frans de Waal, a noted primate scientist at Emory University in Atlanta, told National Geographic.

We’ll skip the science lesson. Enjoy the video.

Image via YouTube