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The chimpanzee (/ tʃ ɪ m p æ n ˈ z i /; Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa.It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one.
Axelsson came up with the idea of exhibiting a series of paintings made by a non-human primate, under the pretense that they were the work of a previously unknown French artist named "Pierre Brassau", in order to test whether critics could tell the difference between true avant-garde modern art and the work of a chimpanzee. [1]
Ammann also measured a faecal dropping three times as big as normal chimpanzee dung and casts of footprints as large as or larger than a gorilla's. [ 2 ] Ammann, with a group of foreign researchers, returned in 2000 to an area described by a Cameroonian bushmeat hunter he had sent to scout the area first a few years earlier.
The western chimpanzee or West African chimpanzee [1] (Pan troglodytes verus) is a Critically Endangered subspecies of the common chimpanzee. It inhabits western Africa, specifically Côte d'Ivoire , Guinea , Liberia , Mali , Senegal , Ghana , Guinea-Bissau , but has been extirpated in three countries: Benin , Burkina Faso , and Togo .
Existing chimpanzee populations in West and Central Africa are separate from the major human fossil sites in East Africa; however, chimpanzee fossils have been reported from Kenya, indicating that both humans and members of the Pan clade were present in the East African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene.
Rudapithecus is a chimpanzee-like [2] genus of ape which inhabited Europe during the Late Miocene, approximately 10 million years ago. One species is known, Rudapithecus hungaricus . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The genus name " Rudapithecus " comes from where it was discovered, in Rudabánya , Northern Hungary in 1965 and sent to Budapest in 1967. [ 2 ]
The footprints themselves were an unlikely discovery because they closely resemble modern human footprints, despite being almost 4 million years old. It is noted that the toe pattern is much the same as the human foot, which is much different from the feet of chimpanzees and other non-bipedal beings.