This type of social dynamics within the chimpanzee community is often referred to as fission-fusion.Ī chimpanzee community is led by a single dominant alpha male who regularly displays his strength to other members, usually by drumming hard on tree trunks. When subgroups return to the community, some of its members may leave to join other subgroups and/or new members will join the subgroup. Within the chimpanzee community, subgroups are formed that travel independently around the home range. Invertebrates, such as termites and ants, are also a favourite food source.Ĭhimpanzees live in large communities that sometimes have more than 100 members. Each community has a home range and males patrol and the protect the borders from incoming individuals of different communities. They also eat meat, such as small monkeys and forest antelopes. Mostly consists of fruit, seeds, flowers and leaves. They prefer sleeping in the trees when they are living in the rainforest whereas they often nest on the ground when living in savannahs. Chimpanzees make sleeping nests out of branches.
Chimpanzees are closely related to bonobos having split into separate species around 1 million years ago.Ĭhimpanzees are often found living in tropical rainforests, but they also inhabit drier regions such as savannahs. Chimpanzees, and bonobos, are the closest evolutionary relatives of humans. Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, were the last great ape species to split from the human branch of the Hominidae family about 6.6 million years ago. Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ellioti).Ĭhimpanzees live only in Africa and inhabit a wide range of African countries such as Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Senegal, Angola and the Ivory Coast.Ĭhimpanzees belong to the Hominidae family that includes humans, bonobos, orangutans and gorillas.
Eastern chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).Ĥ. Central chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes troglodytes).ģ. The scientific name for the chimpanzee is Pan troglodytes of which there are four subspecies:ġ. West African chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes verus).Ģ.
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