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  2. Chimpanzee - Wikipedia

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    It is derived from Vili ci-mpenze [7] or Tshiluba language chimpenze, with a meaning of "ape", [8] or "mockman". [9] The colloquialism "chimp" was most likely coined some time in the late 1870s. [10] The genus name Pan derives from the Greek god, while the specific name troglodytes was taken from the Troglodytae, a mythical race of cave ...

  3. Pan (genus) - Wikipedia

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    There are two species of the genus Pan, both previously called simply chimpanzees: Chimpanzees or Pan troglodytes, are found almost exclusively in the heavily forested regions of Central and West Africa. With at least four commonly accepted subspecies, their population and distribution is much more extensive than the bonobos, in the past also ...

  4. Anthropopithecus - Wikipedia

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    After the genus Anthropopithecus was established by De Blainville in 1839, the British surgeon and naturalist John Bland-Sutton (1855–1936) proposed the species name Anthropopithecus troglodytes in 1883 to designate the common chimpanzee. However, the genus Pan had already been attributed to chimpanzees in 1816 by the German naturalist Lorenz ...

  5. Western chimpanzee - Wikipedia

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    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. [1]

  6. Central chimpanzee - Wikipedia

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    The central chimpanzee or the tschego (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) is a subspecies of chimpanzee. It can be found in Central Africa, mostly in Gabon, Cameroon, Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Central chimpanzees are considered highly intelligent apes. They are also highly social living in large groups and follow a male ...

  7. Robbie Williams on His Touching Reception as a Pan Troglodyte

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    The C-word is widely used over in the UK, but it can get you cancelled in America, I think. You use the work “twat” a lot too. You use the work “twat” a lot too. Also, a great word for ...

  8. Hominini - Wikipedia

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    Minority dissenting nomenclatures include Gorilla in Hominini and Pan in Homo (Goodman et al. 1998), or both Pan and Gorilla in Homo (Watson et al. 2001). By convention, the adjectival term "hominin" (or nominalized "hominins") refers to the tribe Hominini, whereas the members of the subtribe Hominina (and thus all archaic human species) are ...

  9. This Florida slang phrase stumped Americans from other ... - AOL

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    What does "jiffy feet" mean to you? For some Floridians, it means you've been walking around barefoot for too long. This Florida slang phrase stumped Americans from other states and some Floridians