🐒Chimpanzee
The chimpanzee, commonly abbreviated to chimp, is a medium-sized great ape species found in the forests and savannas of equatorial Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one. The chimpanzee shares the genus Pan with the bonobo. Evidence from fossils and DNA sequencing shows that the two species are humans' closest living relatives. The chimpanzee is bigger and more robust than the bonobo. It is covered in coarse black hair but has a bare face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 45 kg
- Body length
- 0.87 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- 1,511 N
- Maximum lifespan
- 74 years
Everything we know about the Chimpanzee
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass45 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Figures vary
- 45 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.87 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Standing height1.35 m1–1.7 m · typical rangestanding (erect)Details ↓Hide ↑
ADW: "When standing erect, they are 1 to 1.7 m tall." Range only; value is the midpoint. Source states the posture (standing erect), so recorded as standing height.
Source: Shefferly 2005, 'Pan troglodytes', Animal Diversity Web, https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Pan_troglodytes/ · see citation
Bite force1,511 NDetails ↓Hide ↑
MODELLED by 3D finite-element analysis, bite at the second molar; adult female specimen, 49.9 kg. Same paper, method and tooth as the gorilla and human values in this file, so the three are directly comparable to each other.
Source: Wroe, Ferrara, McHenry, Curnoe & Chamoli 2010, Proc R Soc B 277:3579 · see citation
Brain mass364 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0
Maximum lifespan74 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 68 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length20 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity11 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation229 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 229 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 range11 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.57 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l45 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 Chimpanzee yet: shoulder height, top speed.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderPrimates
- ›familyHominidae
- ›genusPan
- ›speciesPan troglodytes
- classMammals · Mammalia
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusPan
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- suborderHaplorrhini
- infraorderSimiiformes
- subfamilyHomininae
- genusPan
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