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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

Bonobo (uttal /bʊˈnoːbʊ/; Pan paniscus), även kallad dvärgschimpans, är tillsammans med den vanliga schimpansen de nu levande människoapor som genetiskt är närmast besläktade med människan. Bonobons närmaste släkting är dock schimpansen. Bonoboapor lever vanligen mellan 20 och 50 år i vilt tillstånd, och kan leva upp till 60 i fångenskap. Bonobon upptäcktes först 1929. Trivialnamnet kommer troligen från en skämtsam felskrivning av Bolobo, en stad vid Kongofloden. På grund av områdets svårtillgänglighet dröjde det till 1970-talet innan bonobon började studeras på plats. På 1990-talet stod det klart att mycket i dess ekologi skiljer sig från den vanliga schimpansens.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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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

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  • 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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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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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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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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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.

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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
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  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
🐒 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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Bonobo at Nsele Valley Park, Kinshasa, DR CongoLes bonobos utilisent certaines feuilles aux vertus pharmacologique contre leurs parasites intestinauxUlrik, jeune de 1 ans avec sa mère Uma. LuiKotale, RDC
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