Bonobo[1] Temporal range: Early Pleistocene – Holocene
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Bonobo (Pan paniscus) | |
Conservation status
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Faimily: | Hominidae |
Genus: | Pan |
Species: | P. paniscus |
Binomial name | |
Pan paniscus Schwarz, 1929
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Bonobo distribution |
The bonobo (Pan paniscus), umwhile cried the pygmy chimpanzee an less eften, the droich or gracile chimpanzee,[3] is an endangered great ape an ane o the twa species makin up the genus Pan; the ither is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee. Awtho the name "chimpanzee" is whiles uised tae refer tae baith species thegither, it is uisually unnerstuid as referrin tae the common chimpanzee, whauras Pan paniscus is uisually referred tae as the bonobo.[4]