🐒Bonobo
The bonobo, also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee, is the smallest species of great ape and one of the two making up the genus Pan. While bonobos are today recognized as a distinct species, they were initially thought to be a subspecies of Pan troglodytes, because of the physical similarities between the two species. Taxonomically, members of the chimpanzee/bonobo subtribe Panina—composed entirely by the genus Pan—are collectively termed panins.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 35 kg
- Body length
- 0.79 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 55 years
Everything we know about the Bonobo
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass35 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 40 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.79 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Standing height1.15 maverageOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: both.
By sex
- Both1.15 mWilliams 2004, 'Pan paniscus', Animal Diversity Web, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pan_paniscus/ADW: "Average height is 119 cm for males and 111 cm for femals" (sic, typo in original). Sex averages, not a range: value is the midpoint of male (1.19 m) and female (1.11 m) averages. Source says 'height' without stating posture; for an ape this conventionally means upright standing height.
Brain mass325 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan55 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 55 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length25 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity15 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation235 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 232 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range28 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density2.15 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l35 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Bonobo yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyHominidae
- ›genusPan
- ›speciesPan paniscus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusPan
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusPan
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