Nowhere else in the animal kingdom can we find a species that comes as close to us as the chimpanzee. They remind us of ourselves, but in a funnier version as if it was a cartoon figure of a human being. Their way of walking, sitting or eating, or perhaps mostly in the way they use facial expressions, how they can sit wondering about some matter, with a look in the face saying: I am thinking!

The chimpanzees are actually quite close to us, not only in the fysionomy of the body, but their brain fysionomy are actually very close to the one of Homo sapiens. As a higher mammal the cerebral cortex has a large amount of folds, an indication of the intelligence level. And the chimpanzee is one of the few species, besides from the human race, that has shown abilitiesof using tools to help solving problems in certain situations. But this is not the only thing that makes it closer related to human beings; the chimpanzee has shown signs of being able to, in some degree, think in abstract terms. For instance, some chimpanzees have during tests shown that they are able to think things through before carrying out the action, and not only be working their way to a solution through the principle of keep trying until it works or they give up. A strange thing about the tests chimpanzees have been put through by mankind, while living in capture, is that they have shown signs of more sophisticated thinking in capture, than seems to be the fact in nature. We are, so far, not able to say whether this is caused by a pure coincidence or if the problems they were faced with just did not have any be concidered in their natural environment. This could either be because these forced upon problems never would occur or that there always would be an alternative simple solution that did not require extraordinary brain activity, as it might be solved instinctively.
The thing that most radically distincts the chimpanzee brain from the human brain, is that the chimpanzee does not have the hemisphere specialization that human beings does. This does that it is placed with the rest of the animal kingdom, with a strictly analogic brain that limits it mode of percieving, understanding and expressing itself. And even though it is known that chimpanzees seem to have artistic abilities, these abilities will never be hemisphere-related functions in the brain, as it is known from the creativity seen with the human being.