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Bonobo: Pan paniscus: 29,500–50,000 [68] EN [68] [68] Population may be underestimated. [68] Bornean orangutan: Pongo pygmaeus: 47,000–73,000 [69] CR [69] [69] Heck's macaque: Macaca hecki: 100,000 [70] VU [70] [70] Little is known about its populations. Estimate is for mature individuals only. [70] Japanese macaque: Macaca fuscata: 114,431 ...
Bonobo (Pan paniscus) mother and infant at Lola ya Bonobo. Observations in the wild indicate that the males among the related common chimpanzee communities are hostile to males from outside the community. Parties of males 'patrol' for the neighboring males that might be traveling alone, and attack those single males, often killing them. [120]
The only place you can find bonobos in the wild is The Republic of Congo, where there are estimated to be as few as 15,000 left. The Ape Initiative in Des Moines is the only bonobo research ...
They can live over 30 years in both the wild and captivity. Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) (left) and bonobo (Pan paniscus) (right) Chimpanzees and bonobos are equally humanity's closest living relatives. They use a variety of sophisticated tools and construct elaborate sleeping nests each night from branches and foliage.
Bonobos are one of the world's rarest great-ape species. Columbus is home to 14 of them. Get to know their story.
The bonobo was recognised as distinct from the chimpanzee by 1933. ... with about 140,000 individuals existing in the wild. ... (left) compared to human hand ...
A new orphan called Lomela at Lola ya Bonobo is comforted by another bonobo. Lola ya Bonobo is the world's only sanctuary for orphaned bonobos. [1] Originally founded by Claudine André in 1994, since 2002 the sanctuary has been located just south of the suburb of Kimwenza at the Petites Chutes de la Lukaya, Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Its rainforests harbour many rare and endemic species, such as the chimpanzee and the bonobo. It is home for more than 10,000 types of plants , 600 timber species, as well as 1,000 bird species, 280 reptile species, and 400 mammal species, including the forest elephant, gorilla, forest buffalo , bongo , and okapi .