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pygmy chimpanzee

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pygmy chimpanzee

(Animals) another name for bonobo

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pyg′my chimpanzee′

bonobo.

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Noun

pygmy chimpanzee - small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species

bonobo, Pan paniscus

genus Pan, Pan - chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids

chimp, chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes - intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests

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TEHRAN (FNA)- The most detailed range-wide assessment of the bonobo (formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee) ever conducted has revealed that this poorly known and endangered great ape is quickly losing space in a world with growing human populations.

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The researchers compared Denisova mitochondrial DNA with complete mitochondrial sequences from 54 people who are living today as well as a human who lived in Siberia about 30,000 years ago, six Neandertals that lived more than 40,000 years ago, a modern pygmy chimpanzee and a modern common chimp.

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A landscape-wide distribution of Pan-paniscus in the Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo

The bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee, is found only in the heart of Africa's Congo basin.

Apes under threat

agency said developments in infrastructure posed a threat to the survival of the main great ape species such as gorilla, chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee, and orangutan.

Great apes loosing habitats to development: UNEP

But spending an afternoon in the company of Panbanisha, a 14-year-old bonobo, or pygmy chimpanzee, and her one-year-old baby, Nyota, convinced me otherwise.

Monkey puzzles

This chapter discusses the bonobo (once called the pygmy chimpanzee, but now recognized as a separate species).

We Are Not Alone

These standardized numbers of transversional differences with humans were: common chimpanzee, 29.17 [+ or -] 0.966, pygmy chimpanzee, 31.79 [+ or -] 1.02, and gorilla, 44.76 [+ or -] 1.86.

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Spontaneous symbol acquisition and communicative use by a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus).