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Formerly the bonobo was known as the "pygmy chimpanzee", despite the bonobo having a similar body size to the common chimpanzee. The name "pygmy" was given by the German zoologist Ernst Schwarz in 1929, who classified the species on the basis of a previously mislabeled bonobo cranium, noting its diminutive size compared to chimpanzee skulls.
Comparison of size of adult chimpanzee and adult human. The chimpanzee is tailless; its coat is dark; its face, fingers, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet are hairless. The exposed skin of the face, hands, and feet varies from pink to very dark in both species, but is generally lighter in younger individuals and darkens with maturity.
Kanzi (born 1980)—bonobo, involved with language research and tool invention, ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador; Koko (1971–2018)—gorilla, involved with sign language research and ApeNet language-using great ape ambassador; Lana—chimpanzee, reared at Yerkes National Primate Research Center as part of its language analogue project
One study analyzed sounds made by human babies and bonobos when tickled. It found that although the bonobo's laugh was a higher frequency, the laugh followed the same sonographic pattern as human babies and included similar facial expressions. Humans and chimpanzees share similar ticklish areas of the body such as the armpits and belly. [6]
Both species shared a common ancestor after humans split from the chimpanzees and bonobos between four and seven million years ago in Africa. The split between the common ancestors of the chimpanzee and bonobos then took place about 1.5 to 2 million years ago with the two lineages giving rise to the two current extant species.
Koolakamba, legendary chimpanzee-gorilla hybrids; Bili ape, real-life ape with characteristics intermediate between chimpanzees and gorillas; Mangani, fictional ape with similar characteristics as the Bili ape from Tarzan; Hobo, a fictional chimpanzee-bonobo hybrid in the novel Wake; Humanzee, theoretical chimpanzee-human hybrid
At least six public and private Facebook groups, the largest having 1,300 members, feature “extreme and graphic videos” videos, with members openly promoting them and commenting.
Biologists classify humans, along with only a few other species, as great apes (species in the family Hominidae).The living Hominidae include two distinct species of chimpanzee (the bonobo, Pan paniscus, and the chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes), two species of gorilla (the western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla, and the eastern gorilla, Gorilla graueri), and two species of orangutan (the Bornean ...