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Alpha male chimpanzee at Kibale forest National Park🐒

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SpeciesPrimatesHominidae
Primates

🐒Chimpanzee

Pan troglodytes (Blumenbach, 1775)

黑猩猩（學名：Pan troglodytes）是黑猩猩屬的一種猿類動物，黑猩猩是該屬的兩個物種之一，另一個物種是倭黑猩猩（Pan paniscus）。這兩個物種是當今存在的所有其他動物中基因組成最接近人類的物種，因此引起了科學界和公眾對它們的興趣。 黑猩猩分佈於非洲中部，通常在剛果盆地等熱帶雨林地區中。它們會爬樹，但大部分時間也生活在地面上。它們靠著指關節的外側四肢行走，有時用後腿站立。它的體重略大於倭黑猩猩，但平均小於人類。另一方面，它們的手臂比人類的手臂還要長，體力也大得多。它們是雜食動物，主要以水果為營養來源，也捕食小型哺乳動物。它們非常善於交際，以 20 到 80 個個體為一組生活，並在其間保持著社會等級制度；與倭黑猩猩相反，它們群體中的雄性地位高於雌性。 黑猩猩是目前透過科學研究已知（除人類外）智商最高的動物物種之一。在自然環境中，它們會使用各種工具，例如用來殺死白蟻的棍子和用來敲碎堅果的石頭，有時這些工具以簡單的方式就可以達到預期目的。由於它們個體之間會互相模仿而習得技能，它們各自所屬社群會出現獨特文化與慣習。 它們有些個體會在鏡子中認出自己。 它們是瀕危物種。據估計，當前它們在野外生活的個體數目只有十萬到二十萬，而且還在減少。許多威脅嚴重破壞了它們的野生種群，主要是人類的狩獵活動、（人類活動）對它們棲息地森林的破壞，以及明顯經由人類傳播的傳染病。

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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

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  • 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)
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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
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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

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  • 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

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  • 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
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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
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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 Chimpanzee yet: shoulder height, top speed.

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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
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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
🐒 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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