Alpha male chimpanzee at Kibale forest National Park🐒

Photo: Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🐒Chimpanzee

Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)

De chimpansee (Pan troglodytes) is een Afrikaanse mensaap. Zijn nauwste verwant is de bonobo (Pan paniscus). Beide soorten worden beschouwd als de nauwste nog levende verwanten van de mens. Sommige wetenschappers beschouwen de relatie tussen mens en chimpansee op basis van DNA-onderzoek als nauw genoeg om de chimpansee en de bonobo net als de mens in het geslacht Homo te plaatsen.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
15
vs you
≈ half your weight
Also called
Common Chimpanzee, Robust Chimpanzee, Savanna Chimpanzee
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chimpanzee

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

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

Standing height
1.35 m1–1.7 m · typical rangestanding (erect)
Details ↓

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 force
1,511 N
Details ↓

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 mass
364 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

Figures vary

  • 229 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
COMBINE
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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
11 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
45 Laverage
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderPrimates
  5. ›familyHominidae
  6. ›genusPan
  7. ›speciesPan troglodytes
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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Closest relative on this site
🐒 Bonobo — last shared an ancestor ≈ 1.3 million years ago.
What it eats
fruit60%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
insects and other invertebrates10%
In other languages
szympans zwyczajny (pl), Gemeiner Schimpanse (de), Pan troglodytes (fr), Χιμπαντζής ο κοινός (el), Chimpancé común (es), 黑猩猩 (zh) … and 28 more languages

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