Endangered
Chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes
Chimpanzee is a primate in the family Hominidae (order Primates) — Pan troglodytes. The species lives in groups with up to 200 members, although individuals travel and forage in much smaller groups during the day.
Appearance
Chimpanzee bodies are covered by coarse hair, except for the face, ears, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. While normally black, Chimpanzee hair can also be shades of brown or ginger. As they get older, white or grey patches may appear.
Adult chimpanzees have an average standing height of 150 cm (4 ft 11 in). In the wild, males weigh an average of 40 kg (88 lb), while females weigh an average of 30 kg (66 lb).
Range and habitat
The Chimpanzee, commonly abbreviated to chimp, is a medium-sized great ape species found in the forests and savannas of equatorial Africa. The species has also been found creating sharpened sticks to spear small mammals. Between 170,000 and 300,000 individuals are estimated across its range.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The apes eat for around two hours after they wake in the morning while midday is spent traveling and resting. After more foraging later in the afternoon, they begin to ] in the trees for sleeping during the night.
A sleeping nest is usually used for one night, but old ones are occasionally reused. At Lopé National Park, gorillas and chimpanzees both will consume fruit when it is abundant, but when it is scarce gorillas eat more vegetation while chimpanzees continue to consume fruit.
In crisis
The species lives in groups with up to 200 members, although individuals travel and forage in much smaller groups during the day. Western Chimpanzee (P. Troglodytes verus), found in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Ghana with about 52,800 individuals still in existence. Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee (P. Troglodytes ellioti (also known as P. T. Vellerosus)), found in forested areas across Nigeria and Cameroon, with 6,000–9,000 individuals still in existence.
Eastern Chimpanzee (P. Troglodytes schweinfurthii), found in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia, with approximately 180,000–256,000 individuals still existing in the wild. Genetic evidence suggests that Chimpanzee populations were interconnected until around 500,000 years ago following climatic changes during the transition from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Chimpanzee is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Chimpanzee, Wikidata item Q4126704. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
