Chimpanzees in Monarto Zoo, Adelaide, SA, Australia
"Panina" redirects here. For the Russian surname Panina, see Panin. For the film of the same name, see Chimpanzee (film). Chimpanzees, colloquially called chimps, are two extant hominid species of apes in the genus Pan. The Congo River divides the native habitats of the two species Common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes (West and Central Africa) Bonobo, Pan paniscus (forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Chimpanzees are members of the family Hominidae, along with humans, gorillas, and orangutans. They split from the human line about four to six million years ago, see Chimpanzee-human last common ancestor. Chimpanzees (subtribe Panina) are the closest living relatives to humans (subtribe Hominina); both are members of the tribe Hominini. Chimpanzees are the only known members of the subtribe Panina. Name The first use of the name "Chimpanze" is recorded in The London Magazine in 1738,[3] glossed as meaning "Mockman" in a language of "the Angolans" (apparently from a Bantu language, reportedly modern Vili (Civili), a Zone H Bantu language, has the comparable ci-mpenzi[4]). The spelling Chimpanzee is found in a 1758 supplement to Chamber's Cyclopædia.[5] The colloquialism "chimp" was most likely coined some time in the late 1870s. The common chimpanzee was named Simia troglodytes by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1776. The species name troglodytes is a reference to the Troglodytae (literally "cave-goers"), an African people described by Greco-Roman geographers. Blumenbach first used it in his De generis humani varietate nativa liber ("[Book] on the natural varieties of the human genus") in 1776,[7][8] Linnaeus 1758 had already used Homo troglodytes for a hypothetical mixture of human and orang utan. The two Pan species, bonobo and common chimpanzee, split about one million years ago. This article uses the individual name when distinguishing one species or the other, and uses Pan or chimpanzee (or chimp) when both or either one is implied.
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Location: Monarto Plains Zoo South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Photo credit: © Alexander Kondakov / Alamy / Afripics
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