Chimpanzee Tracking – Learn about Chimpanzees in Africa

The English word Chimpanzee was introduced in 1738 and was got from the

word Vili meaning ape. the word “chimp” was sometimes used in 1870 and

the genus name pan was got from the Greek god with the specific name

troglodytes.

Chimpanzee Species & Locations

The common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), is also known as

the robust chimpanzee or easily known as the chimps is a species of

great apes native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa.

Four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed subspecies are for the

chimpanzee, it is closely related bonobo which is sometimes called the

pygmy chimpanzee –which is classified in the genus pan.

According to fossils and DNA sequencing show that Pan is a

sister taxon to the human lineage and is a close relative to the human

that lives. It has a bare face, toes, fingers, palms of the hands and

soles feet and it is also covered in coarse black hair and soles of the

feet.

Four subspecies of the common chimpanzee have been recognized, with the possibility of a fifth

• Central chimpanzee or tschego, Pan troglodytes, in Cameroon, the
• Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the
• Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Western chimpanzee, P. troglodytes verus, in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana
• Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, in Nigeria and Cameroon
• Eastern chimpanzee, in the Central African Republic, South Sudan,
• the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania,
• and Zambia
• Southeastern chimpanzee, P. troglodytes marungensis, in Burundi,
• Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda: Colin Groves argues that this is a
• subspecies, created by enough variation between the northern and
• southern populations

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