Chimpanzees

You probily thought monkeys were are closest animal relitaves, but your wrong. First of all, do we have tails? No. Yes, we do eat banannas, but can't almost any animal? Gorillas aren't either. Gorilla jaws are huge, and the have a small brain area. Their heads aren't even kind of close to the shape of ours. Chimpanzees. Yes. Our closest animal relitave. They have an exreamily large brain case, and their jaw is shorter, unlike the gorilla's. They don't have tails. They eat banannas, but who cares? Anyone can eat a bananna.

Enstead of talking like humans, chimpanzees use lots of different kinds of faces to express their feelings and what they need. These chimps are play-fighting. To represent "play", the chimps smile wide and have big, bright looking eyes. Here are some other faces and what they mean:

Frightened or Excited = smile with teeth and gums showing
What's That? = bristled hair, soft "hoos" and whimpers

Chimpanzees and other apes will never be able to talk, no matter how much you try to train them to. But at the Language Research Center in Georgia, they have taught pygmy chimps called bonobos how to communicate using sign language. The bonobos point to a symbol on a huge chart of symbols.

A bonobo named Kanzi was first to learn how to communicate like this, but others also know it, such as Panbanisha.
Also, the first animal to go into outerspace was Ham (on right), the chimpanzee!