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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Hominini is divided into Panina (chimpanzees) and Australopithecina (australopithecines). The Hominina are usually held to have emerged within the Australopithecina (which would roughly correspond to the alternative definition of Hominini according to the alternative definition which excludes Pan).
The eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) is a subspecies of the common chimpanzee. It is native to the Central African Republic , South Sudan , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi , and Tanzania .
While Williams, now 50, narrates the story, he is portrayed by actor Jonno Davies as a chimpanzee. His younger little chimp self is played by child actors Carter J. Murphy and Asmara Feik.
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 ...