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This list includes all some individuals to have reached the age of 60 years or more. The average lifespan of a chimpanzee is 40–50 years in the wild and 50-60 years in captivity. The 1 January will be given as the birthday to any individual whose exact birthdate isn't known, in accordance to international studbook procedure.
Chimpanzees may react to lions by fleeing up trees, vocalising, or hiding in silence. [82] The chimpanzee louse Pediculus schaeffi is closely related to the human body louse P. humanus. Chimpanzees and humans share only 50% of their parasite and microbe species. This is due to the differences in environmental and dietary adaptations; human ...
Chimp Empire is a Netflix television series about chimpanzees, narrated by Mahershala Ali. [1] [2] Set in the Uganda's Ngogo rainforest, it follows the lives of rival groups of chimpanzees. [3] The documentary released in 2023.
J. Fred Muggs (a chimpanzee born 1952) was a "co-host" with Dave Garroway on NBC's Today Show in the 1950s. Jiggs, a chimpanzee, was the first Cheeta in the Tarzan films in the 1930s. Jimmy, a chimpanzee, appeared in the film Dark Venture; Joe Martin, an orangutan, appeared in several silent-era American films
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.
The bonobo (/ b ə ˈ n oʊ b oʊ, ˈ b ɒ n ə b oʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee (less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee), is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan (the other being the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes). [4]
Little Mama (born between 1937 and 1942, died on November 14, 2017) was a chimpanzee at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee (near West Palm Beach) in Palm Beach County, Florida, known for being considered the oldest member of her species ever recorded by the time of her death, where she was thought to be in her late 70s.
The chimpanzee and the bonobo are the only species in the genus Pan. Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows that Pan is a sister taxon to the human lineage and is thus humans ' closest living relative.