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Bonobo at Nsele Valley Park, Kinshasa, DR Congo🐒

Photo: EdwinAlden.1995 · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🐒Bonobo

Pan paniscus Schwarz, 1929

Der Bonobo [boˈnoːbo] oder Zwergschimpanse (Pan paniscus) ist eine Primatenart aus der Familie der Menschenaffen (Hominidae). Gemeinsam mit seiner Schwesterart, dem Gemeinen Schimpansen, bildet er die Gattung der Schimpansen (Pan). Beide Spezies sind die biologisch engsten Verwandten des Menschen. Der Bonobo unterscheidet sich äußerlich vom Gemeinen Schimpansen durch deutlich längere Beine, rosa Lippen und ein dunkleres Gesicht. Daneben gibt es zahlreiche weitere Unterschiede, sowohl physisch als auch im Verhalten.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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5
Photos
5
Measurements
14
vs you
≈ half your weight
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Bonobo

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
35 kg
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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 length
0.79 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Standing height
1.15 maverage
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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 mass
325 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
55 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 55 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
25 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
15 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
235 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 232 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
28 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
2.15 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
35 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHominidae
  6. ›genusPan
  7. ›speciesPan paniscus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. infraorderSimiiformes
  3. subfamilyHomininae
  4. genusPan
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. suborderHaplorrhini
  12. infraorderSimiiformes
  13. subfamilyHomininae
  14. genusPan
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More about the Bonobo

Closest relative on this site
🐒 Chimpanzee — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.3 million years ago.
What it eats
fruit60%
leaves, roots and other plants20%
insects and other invertebrates10%
seeds and grain10%
In other languages
倭黑猩猩 (zh), szympans karłowaty (pl), Pan paniscus (es), bonobó (hu), Μπονόμπο (el), bonobo (sv) … and 28 more languages

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